People just think that providing their phone numbers makes them less private when privacy does not mean anonymity.
Yeah, people just think that providing their phone numbers makes local police able to easily find them and insert soldering iron into their rectum when privacy does not mean that that police will not easily find you for what you said on the internets. Wait, what?
Okay, I’ll bite. But considering Signal has no data and very little metadata to give people, what exactly is the problem? What evidence would they have to arrest people on?
Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact and can stop others from finding them via numbers.
What evidence would they have to arrest people on?
Message in big group chat and phone number. Message can for example say that war is bad, and as result you will be charhed with “discreditation of army”.
Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact
Phone number that tied to your passport. Yep, not sharing phone number to add a contact will magically help here.
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Yeah, people just think that providing their phone numbers makes local police able to easily find them and insert soldering iron into their rectum when privacy does not mean that that police will not easily find you for what you said on the internets. Wait, what?
Okay, I’ll bite. But considering Signal has no data and very little metadata to give people, what exactly is the problem? What evidence would they have to arrest people on?
Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact and can stop others from finding them via numbers.
Message in big group chat and phone number. Message can for example say that war is bad, and as result you will be charhed with “discreditation of army”.
Phone number that tied to your passport. Yep, not sharing phone number to add a contact will magically help here.
That’s fair, one reason I stay out of big groups, though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone, so I’m not fully grasping your argument.
What do you mean by passport? It will a bit, if someone doesn’t know the phone number of an account that sent a message.
Is it something new? I don’t remember it being a thing.
In certain countries(Russia) you need passport to buy SIM card. So phone number is tied to person.
Fairly new, yeah.
Oh, right, yeah, that’s bad.