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> You are making the perfect the enemy of the good. They merely said: "Disappearing messages has never been a security guarantee of Signal". Signal guarantees
by palata 2y ago
> You are making the perfect the enemy of the good.
They merely said: "Disappearing messages has never been a security guarantee of Signal".
Signal guarantees end-to-end encryption in transit. They don't guarantee anything that happens on the phones, because they can't. They try to help where they can, e.g. with disappearing messages. But that is a convenience tool, not a security guarantee by Signal.
- mmooss 2y agoWe agree; you just seem to want to argue with a strawperson. My point is that they could help a lot more by verifying the clients. > Signal guarantees end-to-end encryption in transit. They can't guarantee that unofficial clients do E2EE. For example, what if the client sent messages in a way that leaked information, including contact information of the users? > But that is a convenience tool It's a security tool, it's just not guaranteed.