Could somebody link me to the ‘signal malicious’ point of view, i al really missing some context here..
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Got a link to the actual tech details? I saw some stuff around that pin code they recently started asking, but not sure if thats the topic.. (i agree on rest is worse but would like details here ;0)
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Ah that, yeh seen it, thx. I dont feel really qualified to judge that :) i do feel qualified enough to say that people yelling ‘uninstall x right now!’ are silly :)
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Yes it's the SGX PIN backdoor stuff. I'm not "yelling uninstall x right now" but it's clear that Signal needs to be treated as user-hostile and a replacement sought in the mid to long term.
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No, maybe I should have. But the escalating pressure and finally hard refusal to run until I add a PIN is so user-hostile I'd have a hard time trusting Signal even if it's fixed.
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We're trying to add support for identifiers that aren't phone numbers, since that's what we've heard from users. If we do that, your signal contacts can't live in your address book anymore. Every other app just stores that in plaintext on their servers, which we don't want to do.
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What's wrong with having it locally in the Signal app and relying on the same encrypted backup / restore feature as everything else? System contacts are also local data with the option to do backup / restore.