I don’t think that’s a big deal with Signal data. You can log back into your account, you’d just lose your messages. idk how most people use Signal but I have disappearing messages on for everything anyway, and if a message is that important to you then back it up.
For most casual users, it is a deal-breaker. And it’s hard to get everyday people to use your software with roadblocks like that.
That’s fair enough, but the way the mobile app works is that you can opt in to having encryption at rest with a passphrase, so if you want to leave your signal database unencrypted you can.
You must not get email very often, this is absolutely a non-starter for me.
Once you open it you can leave it open if you need notifications. Sometimes I leave it open, sometimes I just want to check my emails and then close it. Idk, I really think typing in a password for authentication/decryption regularly is such a non-issue, like for instance do you not regularly type in a password when you run a command with sudo? Again, if it’s opt-in I also don’t see the issue, except for the issue of allowing people to not encrypt their Signal data thus potentially compromising the people they’re messaging, but obviously that issue is currently universal for Signal desktop.
If I’m not mistaken you were talking about how things work “on my phone” but I suppose you had in mind that the principle would apply to desktop as well.
Yes, I was using it as a comparator as an example as to why it’s not a big deal to type a password every time you open an app, which I don’t think is any different between mobile and desktop.
I’m now genuinely not sure what you’re saying. I did what? I said it was about the mobile app? I didn’t say it was about the mobile app?
Obviously there is the disk encryption passphrase at boot, adding another one for signal would in my case be redundant.
I also have full disk encryption, but I still have some databases on my disk encrypted because I decrypt my disk when I boot my computer. But yeah if you have Signal open (& its db decrypted) all the time it would probably be minimal. I don’t have Signal open all the time though, only when I want to check messages or am actively using it
I don’t think it does much on the typical desktop, be it windows or linux, where there are so many ways to escalate or persist privilege for anyone that has user-level access.
The point would be encryption, even the root user wouldn’t be able to read encrypted data if they don’t have the passphrase
I know. I never said it was about the mobile app?
I already enter a passphrase every time I want to use Signal; I use the Molly client on my phone. It’s really not a big deal. I also enter a passphrase every time I launch my password manager, every time I launch my two-factor authentication app on my phone, and every time I open my email client. I think it’s fairly standard to protect sensitive data on your computer with encryption at rest and to decrypt it upon launching the application that handles the data.
How are you inserting your signature? is it manually? Do you have some kind of keyboard shortcut to insert it?
It’s not a bad feature to ensure that eg if there’s a malicious process running on your computer it can’t send all your signal data to whomever
Whole disk encryption wouldn’t change your daily usage, no. It just means that when you boot your PC you have to enter your passphrase. And if your device becomes unbootable for whatever reason, and you want to access your drive, you’ll just have to decrypt it first to be able to read it/write to it, e.g. if you want to rescue files from a bricked computer. But there’s no reason not to encrypt your drive. I can’t think of any downsides.
I’m not trying to be a dick (it just comes naturally), but I wonder if there’s a connection between antibac wipes, sanitiser and the need for moisturiser…
I don’t use the wipes on my hands and I usually don’t use the sanitiser, it’s just if I can’t get soap and water and need to clean my hands. I’ve still needed moisturiser when I’ve not used sanitiser anyway.
In any case, the moisturiser fixes the problem, so I don’t see any downside tbh
Quite a lot tbh.
Obviously it’s a long list but these are small objects so it’s not really a lot when you’re carrying a bag.
I usually don’t carry a phone or anything like that if I don’t need it where I’m going; normally I can avoid it. But if I need a phone, laptop, etc where I’m going then I’ll have that on me too.
LMAO the part where it just starts displaying a bunch of pills flying at the screen
Just a lager idc
I don’t think there is a “dead giveaway”. Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can’t tell if it’s a child or someone who doesn’t speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There’s a lot of different people in the world.
Not if I don’t need to, like if I need to have a conversation with someone that doesn’t need to be overheard. In any case turning your phone off and putting it in a faraday bag then putting it somewhere relatively noiseproof should be more than enough if you need to bring your phone with you.
Obviously you don’t have your phones on you. Otherwise what’s the point of meeting up in person.
Signal is fine for a drop-in WhatsApp replacement. I use it for chatting to my friends casually. For something you need more security for you could do encrypted emails as that doesn’t require exchanging phone numbers, or ideally just arrange to meet up in-person and discuss things so you don’t leave any kind of digital or paper trail.
Yeah I’ve always entered my location manually for both redshift and gammastep (like redshift but for wayland) in a config file because these programs can never seem to auto-detect my location on any of the devices I’ve tried them on. You don’t have to use your real location. Just put yourself in the correct hemisphere and continent and it’ll probably be ok. If putting a location in the same approximate location as your country in a local text file is too much of a privacy concern to you, then so is setting your system’s local time to your real timezone.
Lime text with a white background or vice versa sounds horrifying and illegible