Or, hear me out, we fire 80% of our workforce, degrade quality, and make the remaining 20% work 10 hours a day.
ha ha, only serious

This coming from the company that graciously brought us "Fuck you business daddy!" to the vernacular.
They're right, it's priceless!


.sig does not apply in this case.

What does K'breel, speaker for the council have to say on this dumbfounding revelation from the Earthians?

I think this is the latter case, where the backups are useless to signal or law enforcement, and can only be decrypted by the keys that you hold on your device (or in a backup if you made one). The keys get spread to all the devices you have logged in to signal, so if you have more than one you're reasonably ok to not make an effort to back them up explicitly. If you lost all your logged in devices and had no backup of the keys, their cloud backup would be useless, but it's not super likely I don't think.

It's absolutely the case that you could just use any random cloud backup provider, and that their service is basically an overpriced, limited version of what you can get elsewhere. But even with all those caveats, I think it's a pretty good idea for them to offer this service. Most non-technical people could understand how to back up their chat data to some other cloud provider, but they simply don't want to learn. They'd rather tick a box in the app and pay $24 per year forever.

Personally that's not me, sounds like it's not you, but I'm not offended that the option exists, and I think it's an ok way for them to secure $2 recurring donations in exchange for a token service.

Wake me when I can get tattooed with chloroplasts like some sort of mutant bipedal sea slug.
People's lack of vision is so disappointing.

No worries, Bicycle Repair Man will save us all!

Now. You know. Where. James Tiberius Kirk. Developed his. Speech defect.

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

AGI can remain intransigent longer than you can remain solvent.

Winter is coming, Mark.

That belongs in a MUSEUM!

Didn't Australia lose a war against Emus?
Moas are even bigger.

What's Randy Quaid been up to lately? For a few years there he was making good progress transforming into a real-life Russell Casse.

Thanks anonymous reader for telling us who Lorde is.
sheesh.

Give me ECoin or GO TO HELL!

I know you're joking that they've already been scammed once (by apple) but apple is not wrong here to say that people are incredibly stupid and liable to get tricked into side loading malware.

I don't think that's enough to override the fundamental right to use the hardware you purchased any way you please, but regardless, they are correct.