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Another huge issue with Signal (and telegram) is that it is tied to your phone number which effectively ties it to you as a person. Which is by default somethin
by stiray 7y ago
Another huge issue with Signal (and telegram) is that it is tied to your phone number which effectively ties it to you as a person. Which is by default something that raises eyebrow.
- maqp 7y agoSame problem with Telegram. You can't register account without phone number. Also, Signal is already working on user names, it's just a lot more complex problem than you might think.
- mathnmusic 7y agoElaborate why it is hard? I would have thought a keypair as an identity and sharing public keys via QR code to add a contact would suffice.
- maqp 7y agoNow that's a horrible UX See how many of your friends use Briar. You need an existing social graph to start. Also, secure cloud backups for the account data isn't an easy thing, see e.g. their blog post on that. But now that it's coming, you'll most likely get to create a username too, and backup contact list to cloud protected with latest and greatest password hashing algorithms so that Signal doesn't have access to it (unlike Telegram).