The simplest test
A few months ago we wrote that your data is yours. It lives on your device, inside an encrypted vault that only you can open. All of that is still true. But there was one question that article didn't fully answer: how do you check it for yourself, without having to take our word for it?
The most honest answer we know is this: let each user be able to take everything they own and leave, whenever they want. No weird formats that only our app understands. Without asking permission from any server. If you can do that at any time, your data is yours. If you can't, they are promises.
The legible copy
Solo2now includes a new option in the vault: readable copy. You press a button, type your password, and you get a regularZIPfile, the one that any computer has opened for decades. Inside is everything that is in your vault.
You will find a folder for each conversation. In each one there is a text file with your messages, in order, legible as is: the touches, the locations with their link to the map, the reactions. Along with it, the same data in structured format, in case one day you want to take it to another program. And your attached files with their original name: photos, documents, audios.
Imagine that you open it fifty years from now, on a computer that does not yet exist and that does not haveSolo2installed. It reads the same. There are note apps that save everything you do as simple text files on your drive, and their users sleep easy because they know that no one can hijack a text file. We wanted exactly that for your conversations.
Two things you should know
The first: the readable copy is not a restorable backup. To put your data back intoSolo2—on a new phone, for example—there is the usual encrypted backup. The readable copy is for you: to read it, keep it and take it wherever you want.
The second: theZIPis unencrypted. That's its purpose—that it can be read without any keys—but it means that anyone who finds the file can also read it. That's why the application warns you before creating it and asks for your password, the same one that protects sensitive operations. Store it the way you would store your important papers: in a place you control. And if you prefer to add encryption, the file is yours: you can protect it with the tool of your choice.
Portability is not a favor
TheRGPDrecognizes, in itsartículo 20, your right to receive your data "in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format." AtSolo2we wanted to make exercising that right not a procedure: it is a button. And for an office, a consultation or an advisory service—professionals who respond to their clients for the information they handle—it is a legal obligation that is resolved at the factory.
Why we want you to be able to leave
We want you to be able to leave because we want you to be comfortable. And for us, being comfortable in a place starts with two things: feeling safe while you are there, and knowing that you can easily leave whenever you want. Open doors do not invite you to leave; They invite you to stay calm.
That's why we try to ensure that everything you own is always at hand: your conversations on your device, your identity in your 24 words, and now also your readable copy, ready to accompany you wherever you go. We want staying to be your decision every day, made with the doors open.
We work so thatSolo2will accompany you for many years. But your peace of mind cannot depend on a promise from us: that's why we designed the application so that, no matter what happens, you never lose what's yours. Readable copy is exactly that: the guarantee that you don't need to believe us.
Your conversations, your files and your settings, in aZIPthat any computer can open. Today, in fifty years, always. So yours.