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Basically, a good way to never trust "it's okay, the data is anonymized" again is simply knowing what the "Hemisphere Program" is.
https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere
In short, the US government got access to number from, number to, datetime, length and sometimes location information for every call passing through AT&T's network from 1987 to today.
Then they ran an algorithm to de-anonymize every burner phone based on behavior. They did this because maybe some of those burners were used by drug dealers.
Signal throws users who need anonymity (refugees, victims of domestic abuse, etc) under the bus by refusing to let users create accounts without phone numbers.
There’s no technical restriction. Signal just doesn’t care about helping these people.
Signal throws users who need anonymity (refugees, victims of domestic abuse, etc) under the bus by refusing to let users create accounts without phone numbers.
Spam. If you implemented other ways of stopping it, it would be even worse for privacy.
Signal throws users who need anonymity (refugees, victims of domestic abuse, etc) under the bus by refusing to let users create accounts without phone numbers.
There’s no technical restriction. Signal just doesn’t care about helping these people.
Spam. If you implemented other ways of stopping it, it would be even worse for privacy.
That’s there excuse. They also say F-droid is insecure which is not true these days
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Bullshit.other services have anonymous accounts yet no issues with spam
That’s due to privacy hostile captchas and others absolutely horrendous techniques.
Nope, none of that is needed for Wire