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Signal Secure Backups

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988 points keyboardJones | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
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rconti ◴[08 Sep 25 16:54 UTC] No.45170670[source]▶
Are they still refusing to do anything about their painful 30 day device unlinking policy? If they can support full backups, surely they can accomplish this.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-unlink-devices-afte...

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ectospheno ◴[08 Sep 25 18:12 UTC] No.45171780[source]▶
Device queues need to expire at some point. At that point you aren’t “linked” anymore. What do you want them to do instead?
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1. izacus ◴[08 Sep 25 19:09 UTC] No.45172510[source]▶
Give users control over expiration and allow longer timeout.
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2. ectospheno ◴[08 Sep 25 19:53 UTC] No.45173090[source]▶
So make signal pay for the storage forever and just ignore that most people won't understand the security risk?