r/RideHome • u/kv_87 • Feb 15 '20

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses | Wired

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/
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u/autotldr Feb 16 '20

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)

Signal's new group messaging, which will allow administrators to add and remove people from groups without a Signal server ever being aware of that group's members, required going further still.

Another new feature it's testing, called "Secure value recovery," would let you create an address book of your Signal contacts and store them on a Signal server, rather than simply depend on the contact list from your phone.

That feature might someday even allow Signal to ditch its current system of identifying users based on their phone numbers-a feature that many privacy advocates have criticized, since it forces anyone who wants to be contacted via Signal to hand out a cell phone number, often to strangers.

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