As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What’s your thoughts about it ? I’m also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it…

Cheers

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      They implemented usernames to identify people so we could stop using numbers to find each other.

      They still use numbers (cell and possibly device/network ids) they say to identify and secure (or so they say).

      The idea is without access to your cell phone, nobody’s going to get access to decrypt your data.

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        6 days ago

        Yeah, no, I get & like that, I just somehow specifically (obviously mis-)remember that they did away with phone number as a prerequisite for creating an account (everything still the same, just that the account can’t be reset).

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