By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
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By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
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Time to sprinkle DRM magic on every Windows application
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People everywhere rely on Signal to protect their communication, including human rights workers, governments, board rooms, militaries, and millions of individuals around the world for whom privacy is an existential matter.
One government in particular.
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Signal also conveniently forgot all of my previous messages in the most recent update.
But hey if I log in and register my phone number they might be able to get it back.
Fuck signal
Threema for me
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FYI: Signal stores all of your messages on your device. If something happens to them there, they're gone. I'm not saying that justifies an update nuking your messages. Just explaining for anyone who may not understand that. There's no central database storing your data long term. Which is a feature.
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Assuming their story is true.
How would logging in and giving them your number potentially restore them if they're stored locally and are just gone?
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I'm using the same device, I stopped using signal about a year ago, my phone has updated versions a couple times since then, every couple months I would go back to find a password or login that I was texted, a couple days ago I started signal to look for a login and it said it had to update, now it says I have to "secure your number" and use it to log in to retrieve my messages.
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Do you even understand the meaning of secrecy? And the point is that you cannot enter the Signal without authorization by phone... And in general, no one cares about your messages (what is inside), the main thing is who, with whom and when. You will be imprisoned not for what you wrote to Osamma en Laden, but for the fact that you contacted him at all (then turn on your imagination and find some other international villain)
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There's an easy way to thoroughly and permanently remove the recall feature.
Install this
uninstalling spyware from windows takes longer than installing linux at this point
And they’ll just reinstall the spyware next feature update.
I finally switched to Linux as my daily driver when I found it took significantly less time than Win11--mainly driver support. Spent several hours trying to get Windows to recognize all my hardware, Mint had it all out of the box.
This is brilliant, but I like this & this.
Yeah, I'm actually on CachyOS now. I just always point newcomers to Mint because it's easy and well supported.
Lemme shill some as well; https://voidlinux.org/download/
There's also this.
And this.