▲ 196 ▼ Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first? (programming.dev) submitted 1 year ago by 0101100101@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 277 comments fedilink hide all child comments I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at. Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?
[–] 0101100101@programming.dev [S] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child) no they weren't. no moving of goalposts what's my number then? amazingly not stupid. dunning kruger and all that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on. A sequence of digits. OK, what are your "simple heuristics" for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on. A sequence of digits. OK, what are your "simple heuristics" for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that? permalink fedilink source parent