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Edited my response to be less sarcastic. But honestly it’s hard for me to read something like this and believe you aren’t being deliberately misleading. All th

Edited my response to be less sarcastic. But honestly it’s hard for me to read something like this and believe you aren’t being deliberately misleading. All this stuff is only stored in an encrypted form that signal never has the keys for. And all this stuff is only applicable if you choose to set it. Yes, for Alice to see Bobs profile Alice has to download some bytes. Those bytes live somewhere. The difference is that, unlike every other app, signal spent a ton of time making this work in a way that The signal service can’t read your data, even if they wanted to.

autoexec 6y ago
You can choose not to set a profile photo but you can't choose not to set the list of contacts you've been in touch with. Opting out of setting a pin won't prevent the data from being saved to their servers. The fact that's encrypted doesn't matter. There are a number of potential issues with collecting it in the first place. You can see some of the security concerns which were brought up on their forums here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-security-pins-are-too-easy-to-brute-force-sgx-is-not-reliable-enough/15096 https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...