65
Are you using beta versions of Signal? Do you report bugs in the Signal forum?
(upload.wikimedia.org)
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
65 points (82.8% liked)
Privacy
32173 readers
935 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
100% this. I found it very disappointing that in order to achieve their arbitrary security policy that they sacrificed SMS fallback
I have no idea why it wasn't just an option on setup or a configuration setting so that it defaults to encrypted messaging by default and then falls back to SMS for numbers that don't support it (if enabled)
From their statement back in the days it always felt like they could have found a way to make this work but simply didn't want to
Codebase weird complexity due to SMS being very weird, buggy standard. Main reason.