Signal and Giphy

Re:Signal and Giphy by dsacco on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:51AM (#12853771)

Empirically, absolutely nothing. You can't judge the security of a software based on its marketing material.

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Re:Signal and Giphy by MikusR on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:15AM (#12853896)

But you can determine that nobody at signal has used or even seen an android phone.

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Re:Signal and Giphy by miend on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:00AM (#12855432)

I'm not sure why you would say something like that. The original TextSecure and Redphone apps were exclusively on Android until it got bundled into a single app and released as Signal on both platforms. Android is still often ahead, and seems preferred much of the time.

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Re:Signal and Giphy by moosingin3space on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @09:09AM (#12854271)

What? Signal/OWS seems to develop new features on Android first, and that animation up top is an Android phone...

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Re:Signal and Giphy by MikusR on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @09:44AM (#12854582)

It's not an Android phone. Android has either on screen Navigation Bar or Physical Navigation Bar not both.

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Re:Signal and Giphy by h4waii on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:34AM (#12855123)

What are you on about? You can enable on-screen buttons while still having physical capacitive buttons.

http://m.imgur.com/u5hcJYQ

Many 3rd party custom ROMs have the feature, including CyanogenMod, the most widespread open-source build of AOSP.

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Re:Signal and Giphy by MikusR on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:00PM (#12856184)

Not on stock Samsung phones.

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Re:Signal and Giphy by lorenzhs on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:04PM (#12859809)

So they made a screencast and blended it with a video of a hand touching a phone to avoid shadows and improve image quality. Is that really your takeaway from the article?

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