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A few months back I opened Signal on my daily driver phone. All my contacts and message history were simply gone. Apparently this is a security feature designed to keep me safe.

There is always a tradeoff between usability and security, and Signal is too secure for me

baobun
> There is always a tradeoff between usability and security, and Signal is too secure for me

I'd reframe that. Inside information security, there is a tradeoff between integrity and confidentiality. Here you lost integrity and availability, which is still a security fail. In no way is Signal being "too secure" here.

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