Talya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️not a year and a half since implementing one of the most important-yet-taxing features, phone number privacy and usernames, #Signal is now looking for testers for its next absolutely huge feature: fully secure, fully private cloud backups.
the more people who test it, the better they can iron out the bugs and publish it to the world at large!
so what are you waiting for? go take it for a test drive!
https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/69984?u=rassilon1963
#Privacy #FOSS #OpenSourceSoftware #E2EE #EndToEndEncryption
Public Signal Backups Testing
TL;DR You can test the new Signal Backups feature on Android on our staging servers. Grab the self-updating apk here! Hello, everyone! Many of you are aware that we’ve been working on a new end-to-end encrypted backup system for quite a while. Well, today, we’re finally ready to start testing it with external users 🙂 The new backup system fulfills so many of the things people have wanted for so long: Hosted by Signal, so your data is safe even if you made a local back...