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I think it’s a good case study on why the state of security in the world is the way it is right now; people want convenience more than security. I even fall vi

I think it’s a good case study on why the state of security in the world is the way it is right now; people want convenience more than security. I even fall victim to this myself: Signal not having a search history or losing message history when activating a new device is often too much of a show stopper. I really hope Signal will be able to pull this off somehow, but seeing how much these type of apps rely on a network effect, I am skeptical.

octorian 7y ago
Lack of search is just a lack of a locally-implementable feature. There's really no security reason why it would be more difficult. Transferring to a new device, on the other hand, does get somewhat more complicated. For ease of use, the data needs to be placed somewhere intermediate. That being said, I can understand Signal's hesitation to embrace Google's cloud storage options for such a feature.