[adiabat]

I agree and find it more than irksome -- it really makes me want to stop using Signal and stop recommending it to anyone; moreso even than the recent scamcoin integration.

The reason I want e2e encryption is because I want control of my devices, control of my information, control of what's going on. It's not Moxie's phone to drop random files on to, regardless of purpose. It's my phone, and I consider programs that are doing things that I'm not aware of malware.

(Admittedly, Android is rife with stuff I don't want going on, so it's not really my phone, it's Google's and Motorola's and a bunch of other entities who have their tentacles in it, but still...)

Maybe the last paragraph is a joke, and they have no intention of randomly placing files on unwitting client machines. It's open source, so I could compile the client myself and make sure it's not doing anything funny. What a pain though. At that point, so much trust is lost in the organization and codebase that really I need to find some other messaging protocol / app / network.