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?

  1. no they weren’t. no moving of goalposts
  2. what’s my number then?
  3. amazingly not stupid. dunning kruger and all that.
  1. People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on.
  2. A sequence of digits.
  3. OK, what are your “simple heuristics” for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that?
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