The reason why you need to talk to a lawyer is that your lawyer is ethically obligated to represent your best interests, not your company's.

> We determined that the issue was being caused by unintended interaction between the Microsoft Teams app and the underlying Android operating system.

As someone whose organizational policy signs my Teams client out after a couple hours of inactivity, I would love to know how on earth this is possible. I truly am at a loss, and I am furious at the thought that I have been unable to dial 911 for who knows how long.

At least I know the ten digit number for my local emergency services, but the average person probably doesn't. This is unacceptable.

The proper word is misdemeanant. ;)

I've had so many problems with this in high school and college, it's unreal. I've only started to fully comprehend my problems with anxiety this past semester but reading all of this makes me wonder if there's something more to it than just that.

The author apparently expects the safety number to change in order to alert the person on the other end that there "might be a hostage situation," evidently not realizing that the attacker could just, well, use the unlocked phone right in front of them.

I don't see how this is a problem at all. This was actually a feature that many Signal users wanted to use - they didn't want to re-verify safety numbers every time that they had to reinstall Signal or switch to a new phone.

> We don't want anyone to get hurt by way of trusting privacy guarantees which may be more conditional than they appear from the docs!

> If Bob notices the chat safety number with Alice has changed and then Alice sends a bunch of suspect-sounding messages or asks to meet in person and Bob has never met Alice in person before, for example, Bob should be wary. After Alice for example is forced to provide device passcode or unlock their device with their fingerprint or face, Alice's device could be cloned over to a new device by way of quick transfer functionality without Alice's consent, and the messages could be coming from the cloned device rather than Alice's actual device.

Respectfully, this doesn't make any sense. Signal provides security from device to device, it doesn't stop someone from pointing a gun to your head and looking at your messages or pretending to be you after stealing your phone. If someone has the physical possession of your phone necessary to perform a device transfer, then you're already screwed. The idea that a safety number change would alert the person on the other end that you're being held hostage is outlandish and is completely divorced from any normal use of Signal.

The personal satisfaction from having a loud muffler is actually less important than my ability to sleep at night.

Signal's own official clients failed to properly back off from spamming the server with incessant requests. I'm not entirely sure how more third party clients would have helped with this issue.