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I don’t understand why people use signal over wickr. Signal accounts are tied to an actual phone number, which is a public identifier. Wickr accounts are tied
by humbleMouse 6y ago
I don’t understand why people use signal over wickr. Signal accounts are tied to an actual phone number, which is a public identifier.
Wickr accounts are tied to nothing. And if you loose your phone you can just login again on any other phone to continue communicating.
- tptacek 6y agoIf you can lose a phone, get a new phone, log in again, and retain your contact list, you should think carefully about the metadata your messenger is keeping about you.
- humbleMouse 6y agoI’d rather it keep some metadata than have a login tied to my actual phone number.
- tptacek 6y agoYou shouldn't be so sanguine about that, because the metadata is often 80% of what your adversaries are looking for, especially if your adversaries are government-backed.
- ViViDboarder 6y agoDepends on your goal. Do you care about people knowing you’re on Signal? Or do you want to keep who you’re messaging private? Signal has features make it so that even if someone knows you’re using Signal, if you use sealed sender, they won’t know who you’re messaging with. For me, I’d rather an account tied to me for discovery, but to keep plain text metadata off their servers. That said, Signal plans to release non-phone identifiers, which I’m sure many are eagerly awaiting. I’m looking forward to it too, actually so I can use it to have my server message me instead of via Slack.