> It's really difficult to build a useable security product, and Signal has done it successfully.
I'd argue it hasn't. Signal still has no way of backing up your chat history (with photos, etc). Lose your phone and it's all gone forever. The PIN that the app annoyingly tells you to set up does not serve as an encryption key for your backups. There are no backups.
Once again, if your phone dies (this happened to me recently), all your data in Signal is gone forever. And there is no way to prevent that.
In this day and age, I consider this unacceptable. That is not a "useable security product".
I'd argue it hasn't. Signal still has no way of backing up your chat history (with photos, etc). Lose your phone and it's all gone forever. The PIN that the app annoyingly tells you to set up does not serve as an encryption key for your backups. There are no backups.
Once again, if your phone dies (this happened to me recently), all your data in Signal is gone forever. And there is no way to prevent that.
In this day and age, I consider this unacceptable. That is not a "useable security product".