[thaweatherman]

Time out on chatsecure is a draw back of iOS. It forces app to close after 10 minutes of inactivity. Very annoying.

I'm with moxie. There are already plenty of good encryption apps out there. That 100,000 could have gone to existing apps that do what they say they do rather than an app that might not turn out as promised.

[nthj]

I never quite understood this. Certainly you don't want to send an unencrypted notification message (“Matt says: here are the meeting times”) to Apple's notification servers. But do you really have to be that verbose? I'm not terribly concerned about the NSA logging “you have $n new messages!” notifications.

[DanBC]

> I'm not terribly concerned about the NSA logging “you have $n new messages!” notifications.

But you can appreciate that as part of risk assessment some people might have a valid reason to be concerned about leaking even that much information?

GCHQ / NSA are good at finding patterns in data, so a collection of "You have $n new messages!" notifications can provide insight into the organization of a group.

[nthj]

Yes, I certainly understand. Most people wouldn't be concerned—and would be far more likely to use the technology if they could enable a feature like "You have $n new messages."

I propose it as an option, not a default.

[_b8r0]

I've been using threema[1] for a few days and that uses notifications pretty well.

[1] - http://threema.ch/en/

[thaweatherman]

Not free though. Most people prefer free apps.

[_b8r0]

You mean compromised apps, statistically speaking.