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It can use usernames now. I don't have any of my Signal contacts in my contact list, and I can't see their phone numbers any more since they introduced the user

• nottorp 1y ago
  Can you sign up without a phone number?
  • mmooss 1y ago
    I think it's required to sign up. It's never used after that (unless you want to use it).
    • nottorp 1y ago
      > I think it's required to sign up. Ok, now where are Signal's servers hosted? You're not safe for any secret police from those countries and countries friendly to the hosting countries. > It's never used after that (unless you want to use it). As in there's no way to accidentally leak your phone number to your contacts on, say, a new installation that comes with the option to make it visible by default?
      • mmooss 1y ago
        Edit: You are making one uninformed assertion after another. Stop making endless errors and just look up these things at signal.org. They are very open about it. > Ok, now where are Signal's servers hosted? You're not safe for any secret police from those countries and countries friendly to the hosting countries. Signal is very open about what information they collect, which is all they can produce: a phone number, and "the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service". https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/ https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/ > As in there's no way to accidentally leak your phone number to your contacts on, say, a new installation that comes with the option to make it visible by default? Is there? What are you claiming, and based on what? There are infinite speculative security risks.
        • nottorp 1y ago
          > There are infinite speculative security risks. Yes, and a lot of them come from them insisting on having your phone number...