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Re:Why I won't recommend Signal anymore by tptacek on Saturday November 05, 2016 @10:52PM (#12883193)
To me, this is madness. I shouldn't have to care what global power my messaging service is aligned with. With Signal, I don't.
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Re:Why I won't recommend Signal anymore by throwaway101416 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @11:13PM (#12883284)
With Signal, you clearly do as they send a lot of your information to Google explicitly (like contacts) and Google has root on your phone.
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Re:Why I won't recommend Signal anymore by kikoreis on Monday November 14, 2016 @07:32AM (#12949376)
Is that completely accurate? As Moxie explained elsewhere they do sync contacts, but that's optional. I'm not sure there's any other dependency beyond the GCM push, which I don't know is very concerning.

Google definitely has root on your phone, but is that automatically an implication that Signal is compromised?

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