this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
141 points (86.2% liked)

Privacy

37745 readers
1152 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can easily verify the keys of the person you’re speaking with, and they’re generated locally… so technically speaking, even if their servers are leaking, your messages are still unreadable, but yea that’s not ideal

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Not when it's backdoored. So, tell the guy above there's a fully libre copy.

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

? Even if the servers are backdoored, your messages are still encrypted by your key - as long as the server didn’t manipulate the keys at the first exchange, which you can check by verifying the security code

If it matches, then it’s okay. Such features exist in all encrypted messenger apps