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Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago
  1. People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on.
  2. A sequence of digits.
  3. 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?
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