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A comment on Signal PINs.

Re:Signal PINs by aoeuhtns on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:13AM (#23243226)
Don't understand the negative comments here and on their subreddit... Secure Value Recovery and the associated PIN seems like an advance in the state of the art -- nobody else seems to do this. All users have to do is remember a few numbers.

I find it surprising that many users got so upset by the software asking them to set a password that they removed the app... seems a bit extreme. I guess if it was part of a "sign-up" flow, people would have been primed for it... But even then, it takes like just a minute to do it? /shrug

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Re:Signal PINs by TheChaplain on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:32AM (#23243318)
Another number?

I have a pin for my sim-card, a pin for the phone encryption, pins for each of my 4 credit cards, a pin for the office door, a pin for my work phone, a pin for the computer smart-card login..

I'm very fine with not having a pin for Signal.

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Re:Signal PINs by anonymousab on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:31AM (#23243315)
>nobody else seems to do this

Plenty of apps add annoyances and nags for new features that uses don't necessarily care about. They correspondingly lose users and gain ire for doing so.

That the motivation and end feature is good is beside the point - they have simply gone about this in a very abrasive way and seem to think they 'know better'.

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