Hi all.

For a long long time I’ve been very happy with Signal, but have lately become rather annoyed that:

  1. it too often bugs me about about an update and forces me to do an update before I can write to my single/only recipient, and
  2. it too often bugs me about my pin code, even tho I never asked for such an annoying level of security.

These security measures are completely overkill for my/normal use, unnecessary, annoying and very aggressive. I’m an adult, and unless there’s a super dangerous zeroday attack/vulnerability, I don’t need constant forced updates, I don’t want to retype a pin code for any reason or interval, and I certainly don’t need to be told how I should run my system, when to upgrade or have software on my system that ‘randomly’ gets locked down for whatever reason.

Does anyone know how I can turn it off (Linux, Android) ? Is there another client fork that don’t force me to follow their idea of what security level is necessary ?

Thanks, and apols for negativity…

    • Sims@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Damn. How the [beep] did I miss that one !? Sloppy. Sorry about that…

      Tho it still doesn’t let me enter the pin. when I press enter, the keyboard just disappears. However this may likely be my old degoogled Android setup.

      Thanks…

    • Sims@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      [shameful] I missed it somehow. Irritation is not helpful in that situation :-(

      • hedge@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I can relate, believe me. Also, thanks for making me feel special that once in a while (well once) I can offer someone a solution instead of just asking for them. 😁

  • groet@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    You can disable the pin/the popup. I haven’t had to type my pin ever, other than to register a new device.

    For the updates: which platform are you using. On android it updates automatically and never bothers me when starting. On Windows it displays a message about a new update, but in 99% of cases I can still use the app without updating.

    No experience with the Linux client but I assume if you just regularly update your system, maybe turn on unattended upgrades in your package manager etc. it will also keep signal up to date.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’ve gathered that verifying your pin is just as much about everyone else’s security, as it is yours.

    The app update nags are indeed annoying, assuming they aren’t because of breaking changes between versions.