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Re:Why I won't recommend Signal anymore by haffenloher on Sunday November 06, 2016 @09:04AM (#12885107)
> I suggest that, instead of routing all messages through GCM, what if Signal could send a "wake up" message via GCM, and then let the app pull the encrypted messages directly out of Signal's servers?

Yep, that's exactly how Signal has been doing it for >1.5 years now.

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Re:Why I won't recommend Signal anymore by gyey on Sunday November 06, 2016 @12:20PM (#12886057)
ahh. I just thought otherwise from some of the other comments here. Makes sense. Thank you.
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