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Oh that's interesting. I don't suppose anybody knows if Android version of Signal back in the 2014-2016 period asked for contact permission (in a non Android m

• leptons 6y ago
  Even if it does ask for permission to my contacts, I don't like the use case of it importing all of my contacts. It's all-or-nothing, and if I choose no then the app may not install. Again, I don't really remember giving the app permission to my contacts, so maybe it's my bad, but I would have liked to have been able to choose which contacts to import and not just everyone. I remember this happened after an update, and to continue chatting with my friends, I'm not sure I had much of a choice but to give it access to my contacts. I don't really trust Signal all that much, but my friends seem to. It's founded by "Moxy Marlinspike" which is a guy with a made-up name, who Twitter hired to fix their security issues - and it looks like they wasted their money on that, so I don't have the most confidence in "Moxy" to really keep my chats private.