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>Without anonymity, there will always be enough metadata to hang you with. Not in most cases, for most people, most of the time. Everyone knows you communicate
by upofadown 6y ago
>Without anonymity, there will always be enough metadata to hang you with.
Not in most cases, for most people, most of the time. Everyone knows you communicate with your family, friends and business associates. Very few people communicate out of those groups and even if they do they rarely have to worry about anyone finding out about it.
- saurik 6y agoUmm... in fact "most people" communicate outside of those groups, as that's how dating works, and it is a big reason why Snapchat dominates "private communication": people don't want to give their "real phone number" to someone until they trust them. Signal needs to realize its big competition is not WhatsApp, but is Snapchat (particularly given that WhatsApp is pretty damned secure, and so should be seen as an ally versus all of the actually-insecure messaging apps of the world).
- jhatemyjob 6y agoIdk how giving someone your Snapchat/Instagram is less risky than giving them your number. You can block people from calling/texting you. In fact iOS recently came out with a feature that blocks all incoming calls/texts from unknown numbers. So even if you give somebody your number and they are evil enough to sign you up for a robocall list it would still be fine