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Oh yeah, privacy oriented messaging app requires phone number for sign up. Telegram has this feature for years already? It seems to me that they are positioning
by nalekberov 3y ago
Oh yeah, privacy oriented messaging app requires phone number for sign up. Telegram has this feature for years already? It seems to me that they are positioning themselves as privacy saviours just because they are non-profit organization and their app is open source.
- cl3misch 3y agoIt is privacy with respect to government surveillance and the like. Not the kind where you mistrust your contacts.
- miramba 3y agoMaybe in the US you don‘t need to mandatory register a phone number with a valid id, in most of the world you have to. If anyone can require the phone company to reveal your identity, it‘s the government.
- autoexec 3y agoNot really the case with signal anymore. if you want privacy you should look elsewhere.
- yreg 3y agoCare to elaborate?
- autoexec 3y agoI posted links to a lot of information here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec#39445866 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec#39445866 The TL;DR is that they collect and forever store sensitive data in the cloud, meaning that the US gov could almost certainly access that data and any other government could access any one person's data too just by brute forcing a PIN
- autoexec 3y agoThat link isn't quite right... if you scroll down enough you'll still get to the relevant bits, but here's a corrected link (I hope) https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=39445791#39445866 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...
- nalekberov 3y agoBTW I am probably getting downvotes from Signal's fanboys who refuse to do their research.