alt Hacker NewsSignal won't let us download our own data and back it up using our own secure systems. Whatever its other merits it gets 0% for backup policy.
Though I suppose then I have to give a negative % to all the systems that have insecure online backups. This whole area is a train wreck really.
> ‘Signal won't let us download our own data and back it up using our own secure systems.
Signal is slowly, very slowly, moving toward providing real backups and cross-device transfers
I understand why you’d believe Signal still can’t deliver that, because they had been ignoring the user demands for years.
But there is real progress now
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-S...