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988 points keyboardJones | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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IshKebab ◴[08 Sep 25 18:24 UTC] No.45171913[source]▶
> Losing it means losing access to your backup permanently, and Signal cannot help you recover it.

Oof... That's going to be tough to explain to normal users. "Sorry you've been paying for backups all this time, but you should have written down this code that you will only ever use once somewhere safe and remembered where it is. All your data is gone."

Not the right security trade-off for most people.

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1. iamtheworstdev ◴[08 Sep 25 18:26 UTC] No.45171934[source]▶
there are more than a few backup providers that do this security trade off with user acceptance of the risk. if this trade off isn't good for the user, they can use any other number of insecure backups.