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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by _dark_matter_ on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:37PM (#33185231)
Holy crap, this 100%. I am absolutely distraught. I give monthly donations, have moved mountains to get family and friends over to Signal, and viewed it as a last bastion for security and interoperability between iOS and Android. Now we will get neither.

Gutted. I will end up switching to a different provider. Absolutely don't know if I'll be able to convince family and friends to switch again.

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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by dendrite9 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:59PM (#33185414)
Yep. What a drag.

I don't really see Signal as a useful tool for my uses after this change. I liked the SMS and encrypted messages in one place thing even though some friends rarely check it. For those friends I send SMS through Signal. There are certainly issues with group chats and media but nothing bad enough to consider using two apps. Now I have to look for a new tool, and figure out what to do with certain archive conversations I'd like to retain.

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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by anonym29 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:56PM (#33186614)
>viewed it as a last bastion for security and interoperability between iOS and Android

>Now we will get neither

Correct me if I'm wrong, but:

- If you and your counterparty are both using Signal, nothing about the security of your communication changes.

- If your counterparty was not using Signal, your messages were over SMS/MMS and therefore not encrypted in the first place, and so once again, nothing about the security of your communication changes.

Are you seeing something I'm not?

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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by borgel on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:55AM (#33187392)
That's definitely true! But if both are in one app you don't need to remember who uses Signal and who doesn't; it just works. Now with two apps, you have to run that mental check before sending a message and choose the right app.
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