Signal: You were the chosen one [video]

Re:Signal: You were the chosen one [video] by px43 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @10:00AM (#32250483)

You should be setting a two-week auto-delete for all your messages anyway. Archive and backup features in other apps are a massive privacy hole. These chats are supposed to be ephemeral, if you want long lasting comms that you can search through later, use email.

The idea of any of my contacts logging every message I ever sent to them, and backing them up in clear text on whatever dumb cloud provider they're using this week, is a pretty scary one.

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Re:Signal: You were the chosen one [video] by izacus on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @10:11AM (#32250594)

Please stop telling me and my family what to do with our private messages. If you want to destroy them immediately, that's fine. But stop demanding that Signal destroys pictures and messages my grandmother cares about without her own input.

This arrogance is the worst cancer on "privacy" software. Essence of privacy is _control_ over data, not destruction.

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Re:Signal: You were the chosen one [video] by kitsunesoba on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @10:12AM (#32250613)

Not sure I agree with this. The problem is I don’t know what I’ll need later until I need it… old messages from months or years ago that I never expected to need have saved me multiple times for a variety of reasons by now.

It’s also awkward to try to herd a conversation partner from chat to email at some arbitrary point when you think the conversation is veering in a direction where preservation is important.

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Re:Signal: You were the chosen one [video] by GekkePrutser on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:34PM (#32266647)

Try sending emails with E2E encryption. Good luck.

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