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It is privacy with respect to government surveillance and the like. Not the kind where you mistrust your contacts.
by cl3misch 3y ago
It 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...