Dude ever heard of a double edged sword? As I already stated, requiring a phone number HAS downsides but it also has upsides.
There will be more spam and scam accounts to worry about on Signal than on SimpleX, I can almost guarantee it! At least if simpleX gets more popular of course.
But yes, no phone number does indeed increase anonymity, but not so much privacy.
I view Signal as the bridge between absolute non-techies and me, so they can at least navigate and use the app, while I am not sacrificing too much privacy.
And I use simpleX with other people who are more tech inclined.
Pick your poison, that’s the bottom line.
Alright I think I know what you mean, but I’m still not sure we’re actually on the same page regarding encryption.
If a company is forced to do whatever ths government commands it to do, that’s only valid within certain constraints.
For example, the company cannot be forced to grow wings snd fly to thr heavens. That’s physically impossible.
Similarly, it also cannot provide the decrypted messages of its users because it (like Signal) does not have the KEYS that are absolutely 100% necessary for decrypting the encrypted messages of its users. So, again, it’s physically impossible to hand over either the keys or the decrypted messages.
However, there is one remedy that Signal CAN do, if somehow forced. That’s changing the Signal program. It certainly can push an update that sends Signal the keys for decryption.
However, at that point, the source code at github doesn’t match the compiled binary of the program anymore, and very good chance people would notice, and thereby people would lose trust in Signal.
I’m not sure about the examples you gave about the government being successful in obtaining user details of a company. Were those details encrypted as well? Was the source code publically available? Was the program popular?
You need to reinstall Signal for it to fall back to its own push notification system. This is not about updates but checking for messages in the background. This doesn’t mean you cannot receive messages at all without it, just that you’d have to do so manually by opening the app every time.
It may have worked for a little while, but a reinstall is required for restoring full functionality
So lemmy.ml censors it as well?
Haven’t used it [silent.link] myself. All I know is that all (or some) plans they offer include only incomming-calls, not outgoing. But good point you make about delays. That’s important. Haven’t thought about that myself.
I’m not too versed in it myself yet. You were asking about these services in general, right? Since you wrote “voip numbers”. I’ll keep tabs on your other comment then
You using special scripts / add-ons? Or bare browser?
Yeh okay what does your super computer say about e.g. mathpix.com ?
I see. Although none of that was listed in the Wikipedia article