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Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by 0101100101@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

            
              they were talking of something like year 2003, when they were commonly not.
no, PSTN is not private.
for something end-to-end encrypted, including message metadata (not connection metadata), this statement seems amazingly stupid ; "simple heuristics" are usually used on something like plaintext e-mail.

[–] 0101100101@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

no they weren't. no moving of goalposts
what's my number then?
amazingly not stupid. dunning kruger and all that.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on.
A sequence of digits.
OK, what are your "simple heuristics" for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that?