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newman314 on March 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Attack of the Week: Apple iMessage

Given that the way Signal presents contacts is suboptimal too (contacts showing up irregardless if they have Signal installed only someone else uploaded said contact), I'd rather have a mode where I have to manually exchange contact info until such time secure contact exchange is solved.

stavros on March 22, 2016 [–]

Isn't that easily achieved by not giving Signal access to your contacts?

newman314 on March 23, 2016 | [–]

Try it with the current version.

If you disable access to contacts, all it does is complain about access with no way to bypass.

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