Subj : w/o the govt, fed or China listening
To   : Ogg
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Jan 15 2025 04:48 am

  Re: w/o the govt, fed or China listening
  By: Ogg to paulie420 on Sun Jan 12 2025 10:37 am

 > And, although there is a desktop for Signal, it still needs to
 > be initially installed on one's phone and a phone number.
 > That's an open vector for ID tracking.
 >

Signal actually tries to mitigate against that because they use phone numbers in hashed form.

The desktop application used to suck. I don't know if it has improved as of late. I doubt it.

Signal is actually great because tin foil hat paranoid nerds like me can use it to chat with regular smartphone wielding sheep without compromising too much. It is far from awesome but it is the only privacy and security centric messaging application that is close to mainstream, is about as easy to use as mainstream messengers, and does not require the smartphone wielding sheep to manage their own credentials.


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