| >It's kind of a difficult thing to ask. "Do you want this app to work like every other app in the world in the ways you've come to expect?" If people were to simply reinstall Signal and find that all of their contacts were gone, all of their groups were gone, all of their block lists were gone, etc... they'd almost certainly be surprised. It's not a behavior anyone expects. I see a lame excuse. Lets be real: Groups have never worked very well in Signal, so people use alternatives. It's been my experience that at some point it screws up and everyone has to delete the group and we start over again. Contacts are stored by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and/or their work email provider for a large majority of the population. Only the minority using burners might care and they are likely already used to setting up lists every time they burn a device. Put a checkbox in the app for: 'Store my blocklist and profile info in Apple/Google's backup system. This will share info with them'. Some users will want that, others won't. Quite a few people would like to have Signal's message backups included in an offline iOS backup, their complaints have fallen on deaf ears. Stop pontificating and give the option. It was a bigger compromise on your end creating a Signal Desktop app than it was to provide an option to include message exports in an encrypted backup. Say what you will about Telegram, they made a much more reasonable compromise with their 'secure messaging'. This feature is not in their desktop apps as the attack surface of a desktop/laptop is too large. Secure chats instead focus on ephemerality and are torn down after completion. It's a more realistic threat model. >Check out this blog post for more information about the technology: Ah yes, the complex technology that relies on the insecure broken thing from Intel: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/hacke... |