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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 08:39:53 JST feld
   My phone is 2 inches away from my laptop but Signal can't sync my devices, it's just hanging here. I told it to not sync history. I have like a dozen contacts max. This software sucks.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 08:47:17 JST feld

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     Just checked latest Signal Desktop, still no Sealed Sender options available.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 08:50:20 JST feld

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     Confirmed by my friend that the Sealed Sender icon does not show up on my messages sent from my laptop, only the ones from my phone.
     
     Signal continues misleading its users about these privacy features. Signal Desktop has always been a weak link and they suppress any bad news about it
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 08:51:22 JST feld

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     also really annoying that the *recipient* has to view if Sealed Sender was used; the sender cannot actually tell!
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 08:52:23 JST feld

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     How many people sit at their desktop/laptop all day and primarily use Signal from there due to it being more convenient?
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 08:57:07 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld what is sealed sender
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:05:07 JST feld

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     @sun Basically you hand Signal a message without any authentication and they deliver it. The recipient decrypts it and can tell from the signature inside it was from you.
     
     Anyone intercepting the traffic can't tell if two messages were from the same sender just by looking at any cryptographic signatures / key IDs that are exposed (it's a second monumental task to figure out who the signatures really belong to, unless you've really targeted your traffic interception to be close to the suspect you're surveilling)
     
     https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:07:25 JST feld

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     @adiz I'm sorry, there's probably a support group for you on DeltaChat
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:07:27 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @feld I use XMPP.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:13:30 JST feld

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     @sun Signal Desktop probably isn't allowed to do Sealed Sender because someone could spam the Signal network with garbage. Not like they can spam *people* very easily, but gum up their network with garbage that gets past the first authentication barrier. Maybe probe and attack their parsers, or just impact down delivery of messages for everyone. Stuff like that.
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:14:27 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld isn't this kind of like how xmtp works
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:14:47 JST feld

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     @adiz "snark" always makes me think of "Snarf" for some reason
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:14:49 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @feld What snark!

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:15:22 JST feld

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     @sun I've already forgotten the code I wrote to test XMTP lol I just remember the protobufs shit was annoying
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:15:48 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld I just remember everything was wrapped in encryption so you couldn't tell who was sending what messages
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 09:16:17 JST feld

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     @sun that giant firehose was insane though, like worse than Bluesky
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