The technology that underpins this initial version of secure backups will also serve as the foundation for more secure backup options in the near future. Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing, alongside features that let you transfer your encrypted message history between Android, iOS, and Desktop devices.

And like others also pointed out, it’s already possible to do a local backup on Android and then sync with whatever tool you see fit. But letting users choose the location and also enabling it for other platforms is definitely welcome.

Greg has great music taste

while the iconic mineral water bottle’s red cap was deemed to be a reference to the Japanese flag.

What’s the main colour of the Chinese flag now again…

I disagree, kids should not work as they have no sense for quality.

Without having read the article, I guess it relates to the recent Signal blog post by Meredith Whittaker https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please/

That’s reassuring, the splendid democracy US of A has proven to always elect reliable and trustworthy presidents, who has the ultimate authority over such weapons! Totally looking forward for the upcoming election, both candidates are great, especially the orange one!

Yes, and it follows what was shown in a YouTube video of a beta build earlier in spring. I think it looks very promising. Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81mBMGw6fo