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While they are at it, Signal should improve SMS integration capabilities as well. If Signal is used as default SMS client (Which IMO is a good use case), the search implementation is by far the worst search implementation ever on the application. Searching local SMS DB shouldn’t be security concern, Android’s SearchView should basically do it by itself. I haven’t looked through their code yet, there’s minor possibility that they have ditched some default android frameworks for added security.


> Searching local SMS DB shouldn’t be security concern

Actually, it is, since Signal encrypts your messages and only decrypts them when the app is "open". See http://esl.cs.brown.edu/blog/signal/ and See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1232...




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