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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. And I don't fault them for this route. I just with I could sign up without a phone number. Maybe the username thing is a predecessor to allowing usernam-only registration in the future.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, hopefully. It would also be awesome to have a web login so I could access messages and whatnot when using someone else's computer w/o having to install something.

I don't know what direction they're going, but I'm honestly okay with the caveats that currently exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having web logon would mean they would need to hold the decryption key in some form (or have a weak decryption key, your credentials), so, while convenient, I think it would degrade security and possibly privacy. Unless you mean to receive new messages, the way the desktop app works?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can't tell if you're joking haha

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 3 months ago

Why would they be joking? There's really not a big difference between how their mobile and desktop apps work and what's possible in the web. It can fetch the keys from my computer or my phone just like their other apps work, and store the keys and whatnot encrypted in temporary local storage, just like on the phone. WebAssembly could allow them to share the code and retain similar performance.

I honestly don't see an issue here. If they need help, I'd be happy to lend a hand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'd be more interested in allowing more than one Android device at a time like MySudo. They let you link Windows with a phone so I wouldn't think it would be too hard to implement.