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100% of signal scrapped - ugh
by random5634 6y ago
100% of signal scrapped - ugh
- dotandimet 6y agoJust as insecure as Whatsapp, just far fewer users.
- hiq 6y ago> Just as insecure as Whatsapp From the paper: > With its focus on privacy, Signal excels in exposing almost no information about registered users, apart from their phone number. In contrast, WhatsApp exposes profile pictures and the About text for registered numbers, and requires users to opt-out of sharing this data by changing the default settings.
- Daniel_sk 6y agoThey have been too busy with integrating crypto payments instead of fixing long standing issues or planned features (allow to register without a phone number). But - to Signal's defense - while you can scrape the phone numbers, there is not much you can gain from it, you can only tell that a specific number is a Signal user. And sometimes you can see the username (if the user chooses to not encrypt it).
- walrus01 6y agoGiven the re-use and re-issuance of phone numbers in very busy US area codes (like 212, 202, etc) it also only allows discovery that at some unknown point in the past, that number has been registered as a Signal user.