I'm sure this was all hashed out when the change to Signal notifications was made, but I'm not a big fan of showing the name or the message in notifications. It's fine that I can control what's displayed in *my* notifications, but as the sender I also have an interest in what's displayed in the recipient's notifications, and I have no control over that. I'd like to know that when I send someone a message, only he can read it, but when messages might be pushed to the lock screen of a locked phone, I don't know that. If my communication partner's phone falls into the hands of an adversary, I may send a message that incriminates me or him that the adversary receives instead of the intended recipient.
I suppose I could always start off by saying, "Hey, are you there?" and wait for a response before I say anything else, but that makes things a lot more synchronous than they need to be. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:08 PM Jason Strange <[email protected]> wrote: > There are options to limit the information displayed in notifications (To > "Name and message", "Name only", and "No name or message"), and if you have > a Signal passphrase set, whenever Signal is locked, the notifications read > as Locked Message. My Android is a little rusty, but you can review the > notification system here to learn more: > > > https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master/src/org/thoughtcrime/securesms/notifications > > > On 2/22/2016 11:02 AM, Tony Arcieri wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Ali Aydin Selcuk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Message contents are visible from the notification bar, which should be >> transmitted over Google's or Apple's push notification servers. >> >> We just can't see how this is compatible with the end-to-end encryption >> feature of Signal. >> >> Are we missing something, or is there something fundamentally wrong here? >> > > I do not work for or speak for OWS, but that said... > > When Signal first launched, the push notification handler just displayed > "New Message". This is annoying from a UX standpoint. > > I believe they later added support for decrypting messages within Signal's > push notification handler. > > I believe it's also an option you can toggle on and off (so as to e.g. > prevent someone who steals your phone from seeing these messages) > > -- > Tony Arcieri > > > _______________________________________________ > Messaging mailing > [email protected]https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging > > > _______________________________________________ > Messaging mailing list > [email protected] > https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging >
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