Signal says 1,900 users' phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach | TechCrunch
techcrunch.comAt least one user had their Signal number re-registered by an attacker.
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You can care about privacy, or you can ask a phone number during sign up. Those things are mutually exclusive.
Don’t use Signal you care about privacy.
You’re conflating privacy with anonymity. Signal is not anonymous, but it is private.
I can’t fathom why they insist on sticking with this. It’s so obviously a de-anonymization technique, which is completely at odds with the rest of their stated goals. I haven’t made a Signal account for exactly this reason.
Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good. All my friends and family use Signal, it was a multi-year effort to pull that off. Signal will roll out usernames faster than the tide will turn, so let’s take our wins and learn to be better.
Yhea.
I can almost exclusively chat with my social circle with signal now, been using it since 8-9 years.
I’ve tried xmpp, matrix and some other. Signal is the only one that stuck, it’s not perfect but it’s fucking fine from my perspective.