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For TextSecure users, will this be an issue? Usually I'm prompted before I download a image/video. Do you think I'm okay using TextSecure?

pasbesoin 11y ago
I was just looking at the settings the other day. Per other comments in this topic, I'd look at disabling the MMS features; IIRC TextSecure also has user settings for this. Edit: Just had a look. I do not have TextSecure as my default client. There is MMS configuration information, but not a simple "disable automatic retrieval" or similar setting, as there is in my default SMS/MMS client. I don't know whether one appears when TextSecure is the default client; I suspect not, and maybe this should be addressed?
- Abundnce10 11y ago
  I don't see any option to disable it and I use it as my default client.
- simoncion 11y ago
  It turns out that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
  - pasbesoin 11y ago
    Thanks, moxie (he's on HN). Maybe I will make TextSecure my default app. I'll give "the hype" a day or two to start sorting itself, while I have the "auto" stuff disabled in my current default app.
    - simoncion 11y ago
      As an additional datapoint: In my -and my lady friend's- experience, TextSecure is the the only app to correctly handle MMS group chat. We tried the stock Android app, the stock Samsung app, and Hangouts. They all failed to do the right thing in one way or the other.
monort 11y ago
According to this ticket TextSecure should auto download MMS: http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/questions/9774725-disable-mms-auto-download http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/questions/...
- simoncion 11y ago
  I, too was confused by that setting. It turns out that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
aidenn0 11y ago
According to Moxie[1], TextSecure does not pass media on to anything involving stagefright, unless/until you tell it to open it (which will popup a warning that things are leaving TS's sandbox). 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
- Abundnce10 11y ago
  This has been my experience using the app. If that's the case, then I think I should be fine.

pasbesoin 11y ago

I was just looking at the settings the other day. Per other comments in this topic, I'd look at disabling the MMS features; IIRC TextSecure also has user settings for this. Edit: Just had a look. I do not have TextSecure as my default client. There is MMS configuration information, but not a simple "disable automatic retrieval" or similar setting, as there is in my default SMS/MMS client. I don't know whether one appears when TextSecure is the default client; I suspect not, and maybe this should be addressed?

Abundnce10 11y ago
I don't see any option to disable it and I use it as my default client.
simoncion 11y ago
It turns out that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
- pasbesoin 11y ago
  Thanks, moxie (he's on HN). Maybe I will make TextSecure my default app. I'll give "the hype" a day or two to start sorting itself, while I have the "auto" stuff disabled in my current default app.
  - simoncion 11y ago
    As an additional datapoint: In my -and my lady friend's- experience, TextSecure is the the only app to correctly handle MMS group chat. We tried the stock Android app, the stock Samsung app, and Hangouts. They all failed to do the right thing in one way or the other.

monort 11y ago

According to this ticket TextSecure should auto download MMS: http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/questions/9774725-disable-mms-auto-download http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/questions/...

simoncion 11y ago
I, too was confused by that setting. It turns out that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

aidenn0 11y ago

According to Moxie[1], TextSecure does not pass media on to anything involving stagefright, unless/until you tell it to open it (which will popup a warning that things are leaving TS's sandbox). 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

Abundnce10 11y ago
This has been my experience using the app. If that's the case, then I think I should be fine.