As happy as I am that more people will use Signal thanks to the desktop integration, I am pretty sure I won't use it myself.<p>I consider Signal the only "secure" public way to communicate with me, and it's because it's restricted to a native app running on an unjailbroken updated iOS device, which puts the cost of exploitation in the 1M$ band.<p>Pairing it with a laptop, in a browser context, kind of defeats that use case. And WhatsApp is a valid alternative for convenience.
mtgx mentioned this on the earlier thread, and I'm curious to know too (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585597" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585597</a>):<p>Have they said what are their long-term plans for the desktop app, now that Google has started deprecating Chrome apps?<p><a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...</a>
Crypto community question - why is everybody so adamant about using Signal? Outside of work, I don't own a smart phone and refuse to, so signal is not an option. It's to the point where it's actually gotten in the way with getting in contact with at least three people I know.
That doesn't seem as good as Wire. Why should I bother with Signal?<p><a href="https://wire.com/" rel="nofollow">https://wire.com/</a>
Seems like its failing to import contacts and groups from my phone? Anyone else having this problem? I can provide debug logs if that would be helpful.