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elvisloops | 5 months ago

There's a big difference to me between storing it on device and someone else's servers.

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Marsymars|5 months ago

Sure, but you already have no way of knowing which one the other parties in your chats are doing.

I already sync my Signal backups to the cloud, because that's the most practical and time/cost-effective way to have a 3-2-1 backup system for my chats.

elvisloops|5 months ago

There's a difference between someone in your chats acting adversarially and Signal supporting/encouraging adversarial behavior as part of the way the app works. If Signal published a change to the protocol that removed forward secrecy, we wouldn't consider it a non-event and say "well anyone could screenshot messages anyway," even though that may be true. They're calling this "secure backups," but in truth it appears to reduce security