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Holy crap, this 100%. I am absolutely distraught. I give monthly donations, have moved mountains to get family and friends over to Signal, and viewed it as a la
by _dark_matter_ 4y ago
Holy crap, this 100%. I am absolutely distraught. I give monthly donations, have moved mountains to get family and friends over to Signal, and viewed it as a last bastion for security and interoperability between iOS and Android. Now we will get neither.
Gutted. I will end up switching to a different provider. Absolutely don't know if I'll be able to convince family and friends to switch again.
- dendrite9 4y agoYep. What a drag. I don't really see Signal as a useful tool for my uses after this change. I liked the SMS and encrypted messages in one place thing even though some friends rarely check it. For those friends I send SMS through Signal. There are certainly issues with group chats and media but nothing bad enough to consider using two apps. Now I have to look for a new tool, and figure out what to do with certain archive conversations I'd like to retain.
- anonym29 4y ago>viewed it as a last bastion for security and interoperability between iOS and Android >Now we will get neither Correct me if I'm wrong, but: - If you and your counterparty are both using Signal, nothing about the security of your communication changes. - If your counterparty was not using Signal, your messages were over SMS/MMS and therefore not encrypted in the first place, and so once again, nothing about the security of your communication changes. Are you seeing something I'm not?
- borgel 4y agoThat's definitely true! But if both are in one app you don't need to remember who uses Signal and who doesn't; it just works. Now with two apps, you have to run that mental check before sending a message and choose the right app.