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Trolling or ignorant. Or a secret third thing.
JWZ has had to go through the same kinds of circular conversations.
Neither. I explained my/our rationale above. Your disinformation is making people unsafe.
Signal does not leak your phone number to anyone. You/they are just ignorant as to how the service works. Signal will notify you if someone YOU HAVE IN YOUR CONTACTS joins the network. It will not give you any of their personal information. Their ID will show up as whatever is already in your contacts.
How much personal information Signal does or does not reveal to other Signal users is not relevant to this conversation.
Then why did you bring it into the discussion?
I didn’t.
This conversation is about the the US security state. It’s about the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.
LOL you did. The title of the link you shared is “signal leaks your phone number to everyone in your contacts”.
I didn’t say that. You must be confusing me with someone else in this thread. But since you brought it up: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-number-to-everyone-in-your-contacts/
But I’m more concerned about the security state angle.
Edit to add: I see, yes, one of the links I posted did say that, which I highlighted above. But again I’m more interested in the fact that Signal is a product of Radio Free Asia, which is a US security state outfit. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia-cuts-funding
…who are you trying to fool? It’s there for everyone to see…?
As I already stated, this is incorrect. It’s not how it works. And after publishing such obviously incorrect information, I wouldn’t trust anything they said.
If you’re going to continue denying our lived experiences with Signal, why should we allow you continue commenting on our Lemmy instance?
I find it fascinating that these people show up in every thread about Signal, and they just spam the same nonsense.
I like to think that it’s usually just because they’re socially invested in it.
It does very much feel like a cult.