I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

  • rirus@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    CONTACTS ARE UPLOADED

    Robust encryption isn’t useful if you don’t verify the fingerprint and signal makes that not intuitively.

    SIGNAL CLIENT HAS UNFREE SOFTWARE INCLUDED

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      19 hours ago

      Contacts are never uploaded

      Hashes of some numbers are if you enable contact discovery

      Verifying keys is easy, what are you talking about?