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988 points keyboardJones | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | 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. staplers ◴[08 Sep 25 18:28 UTC] No.45171967[source]▶
It's this way, or it's not encrypted. The whole premise of their privacy model requires this.

Signal opens themselves up to government coercion and ruined reputation otherwise.