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-Title: Experience and updated recipe for Using the Signal app without a mobile phone
+Title: Experience and updated recipe for using the Signal app without a mobile phone
 Tags: english, debian, sikkerhet, surveillance
 Date: 2016-10-10 11:30
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ time to share some experiences and provide an updated setup.</p>
 <p>The Signal app have worked fine for several months now, and I use
 it regularly to chat with my loved ones.  I had a major snag at the
 end of my summer vacation, when the the app completely forgot my
-setup, identify and keys.  The reason behind this major mess was
+setup, identity and keys.  The reason behind this major mess was
 running out of disk space.  To avoid that ever happening again I have
 started storing everything in <tt>userdata/</tt> in git, to be able to
 roll back to an earlier version if the files are wiped by mistake.  I
@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@ time.</p>
 
 <p>I've also hit the 90 days timeout blocking, and noticed that this
 make it impossible to send messages using Signal.  I could still
-receive them, but had to patch the code with a new timestamp to
-send.</p>
+receive them, but had to patch the code with a new timestamp to send.
+I believe the timeout is added by the developers to force people to
+upgrade to the latest version of the app, even when there is no
+protocol changes, to reduce the version skew among the user base and
+thus try to keep the number of support requests down.</p>
 
 <p>Since my original recipe, the Signal source code changed slightly,
 making the old patch fail to apply cleanly.  Below is an updated
@@ -174,4 +177,4 @@ chmod a+rx run-signal-app
 
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