Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal

Re:Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal by sneak on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:52AM (#26940875)

It would appear that encryption is optional in this tool. That's a 50 caliber footgun (on par with Telegram) if I ever saw one; I won't be using this software.

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Re:Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal by m4lvin on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:47AM (#26941938)

OMEMO is optional because not all of the 37283749 XMPP clients support it. But it is enabled by default if all involved parties are using Quicksy, Conversations or another reasonably new client.

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Re:Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal by sneak on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:43AM (#26942403)

I won't touch a messenger that ever lets me send a mix of encrypted or unencrypted communications. That's an accident waiting to happen.

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Re:Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal by h4waii on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:46AM (#26943815)

For what it's worth, Signal on Android allows sending of unencrypted messages over SMS.

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Re:Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal by slenk on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:21AM (#26951978)

But that's a different protocol than the signal protocol. And Signal encrypts your SMS at rest should you choose to use their app to do so.

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