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Signal tests usernames so you can avoid sharing your phone number (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

A few possible answers:

  1. Signal is not big enough for spammers to spend resources on
  2. People who bothered to use Signal are likely to be more privacy minded and therefore less likely to fall for scam
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago
    1. Signal just isn't as private as its marketing wants you to think it is

    A tip (but you do you, of course), use something federated (XMPP!): the time for trusting a central organization to do no harm is over if you have kept tabs of anything internet over the last 40 years or so..

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