Meredith WhittakerUse Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
Anne Ominousshould i turn off push motifications for Signal to make it even more secure?
Derek Morr@rustoleumlove @Mer__edith message content isn't included in Signal's push notifications.
yet, i can see that content in the notification.
Mehdi Kharraz@rustoleumlove @derekmorr From my understanding, Signal's push notifications just act as a way to wake up the device. Then, the app fetches the encrypted content from Signal's server, decrypt it locally, and generate a local notification with the decrypted content.
thank you so much for that explanation.
@imkh @rustoleumlove that's right. The push notification had an empty body. So all Google or Apple sees is that you got a message on Signal at a certain time.
👊🇺🇸🔥@rustoleumlove @derekmorr Meredith addressed this 18 months ago https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025
Meredith Whittaker (@[email protected])
PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/