On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
If you understand that this information is being leaked, and that’s not part of your threat profile that’s perfectly fine. The problem is that a lot of people don’t seem to understand the implications of Signal harvesting phone numbers, and therefore make bad assumptions regarding the safety of using Signal. It’s pretty clear that a lot of people aren’t conscious about this in this very thread in fact.
Wire uses Signal protocol and doesn’t harvest phone numbers, so I’m pretty sure we do actually know what the answer is. The fact that Signal made this design choice is very concerning to anybody who understand the implications of doing that.
If you understand that this information is being leaked, and that’s not part of your threat profile that’s perfectly fine. The problem is that a lot of people don’t seem to understand the implications of Signal harvesting phone numbers, and therefore make bad assumptions regarding the safety of using Signal. It’s pretty clear that a lot of people aren’t conscious about this in this very thread in fact.
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Wire uses Signal protocol and doesn’t harvest phone numbers, so I’m pretty sure we do actually know what the answer is. The fact that Signal made this design choice is very concerning to anybody who understand the implications of doing that.
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