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Doesn't the protocol detect device changes?

• walrus01 6y ago
  It does, and it warns the other users chatting with the person whose device has changed, but given the tendency of non technical users to click "yes/accept/okay" buttons in the GUI to bypass any error messages that come up on their mobile phone screens, I question how much value it has. Two experiences: Among highly technical users in my peer group, when somebody upgrades or replaces their phone, if we're chatting with somebody who has a new signal device private key, I'll chat with them a bit by voice to confirm it really is them using a new phone. We've had a number of discussions about how it's apparently impossible to manually move ones' own signal private keys from disk storage on an android device onto a new android device. This works among people I know closely and recognize the sound of their voice. Among non technical users, they'll just click the equivalent of "okay" and continue chatting without even thinking about what the error message means.