Signal Private Messenger

[Tejas01]

The problem comes in determining how much time is too much time. For instance, if the effectiveness of the message is 1 week and the scheduled deletion time is 1 month, it will do no good.
While there needs to be a balance between privacy and security, problem comes when law enforcers tilt the balance and start abusing innocent people or some smarties take security in their own hands.

 

[Sushubh]

Not sure if this setting is new after the update today coz I just got my first notification of a contact joining out of nowhere.

 

[Sushubh]

for some reasons the sms i receive on signal are never recovered by other sms apps when i move back to them. lost a bunch of sms this way.

 

[Tejas01]

Thanks for that... I had been searching that option as it's literally spamming my homepage in the app.

 

[Tejas01]

for some reasons the sms i receive on signal are never recovered by other sms apps when i move back to them. lost a bunch of sms this way.

Yup.. I can confirm that. Maybe signal doesn't want other msg apps to snoop on your msg and leak it through meta.

 

[Sushubh]

this is idiotic. and i cannot seem to find any reference to this online.

 

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[SVK]

Not sure if this setting is new after the update today coz I just got my first notification of a contact joining out of nowhere.

I also started receiving this message yesterday, though my above mentioned setting was OFF. I toggled it ON and OFF again. After that did not receive any such messages.
I had installed Signal on my Wife's phone, but she was not aware. She got surprised after seeing many notifications about "XYZ is on Signal". She was asking which Signal

 

[Tejas01]

Signal won't replace WhatsApp, the cofounder of both encrypted messaging apps says. Instead, people will use the 2 services for different conversations. - Business Insider India

I have no desire to do all the things that WhatsApp does, Brian Acton, a cofounder of Signal, told TechCrunch. Acton also cofounded WhatsApp.

www.businessinsider.in

So all our talks and debates finally boils down to this..

 

[Sushubh]

Taking Back Our Privacy

Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.”

www.newyorker.com

 

[Sushubh]

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