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Signal Secure Backups

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988 points keyboardJones | 7 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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X-Istence ◴[08 Sep 25 17:42 UTC] No.45171338[source]▶
I already pay Apple for storage, please just back up my chats/media to iCloud.
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vigilans ◴[08 Sep 25 17:46 UTC] No.45171386[source]▶
This BS is why I completely stopped donating to the signal foundation.

The messages are mine, not theirs, and yet they refuse to allow me to handle them how I deem fit.

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1. teiferer ◴[08 Sep 25 18:07 UTC] No.45171702[source]▶
Have you read the article? They are working on it.
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2. rPlayer6554 ◴[08 Sep 25 18:11 UTC] No.45171755[source]▶
Where does it say that?
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3. layer8 ◴[08 Sep 25 18:41 UTC] No.45172113[source]▶
“Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing”.
4. vigilans ◴[08 Sep 25 18:42 UTC] No.45172118[source]▶
Thank you. I should have read to the end, and I'm glad they're planning to support backups stored on their users' media.
5. sambostock ◴[08 Sep 25 18:46 UTC] No.45172169[source]▶
> Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing, [...]

I also missed this on my first skim of the article though.

6. kelnos ◴[08 Sep 25 19:46 UTC] No.45173008[source]▶
Their first cut at "working on it" is to require that we pay Signal to store our backups for us (45 days of media and 100MiB total is not a useful free tier; I have more than 1 GiB of messages/media spanning years), when that's an entirely unnecessary restriction.
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7. teiferer ◴[08 Sep 25 20:49 UTC] No.45173787[source]▶
I don't know what you do for a living but it's very common when writing and releasing software to do it in phases. Earlier phases have a restricted feature set and feedback from the field/customers/users experiencing earlier phases informs choices in later phases.

Unless you have direct insights into their dev process, your claim that the restriction be "entitely unnecessary" seems overly strong.