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This seems to be an unfortunate case where a feature has a misleading name. You already had secure and encrypted backups on your phone, which you could copy an
by nlitsme 1y ago
This seems to be an unfortunate case where a feature has a misleading name.
You already had secure and encrypted backups on your phone, which you could copy and restore, if you remembered to copy them, and write down a very long password.
The new feature is apparently a way for signal to sell cloud services.
I do think cloud based backups are very useful for less technical people. But it does not really matter if your (properly encrypted) signal backup lives on a google drive/apple cloud, or on a cloud service managed by Signal.
- Analemma_ 1y agoThe encrypted backups do work, but Signal is really, really bad at indicating when and how to make them to use them for restoration. Most non-technical people I know are just resigned to wiping out their Signal history every time they get a new iPhone (and I know two people who abandoned Signal and went back to iMessage because of this), and even I've lost it a couple times. It leaves sort of a gross taste in my mouth that a paid service is the fix for their unhelpful UX.
- wer232essf 1y ago[flagged]
- conradev 1y agoI believe this service works no differently. Lose that passphrase, lose everything.
- aborsy 1y agoCome on, $2/month is nothing, and doubtful would raise much of “revenue “. That’s a coffee a month.
- noja 1y ago> You already had secure and encrypted backups on your phone, which you could copy and restore, if you remembered to copy them, and write down a very long password. Did I? Where? on iOS I don't. Edit: there is a transfer to a new phone thing, but that only works if the old phone still works. Which makes it not a backup (it's a transfer).
- foofoo12 1y ago> if you remembered to copy them, and write down a very long password All that BEFORE your phone was stolen/damaged.