https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

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ABOUT FUCKING TIME

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THIS IS A BIG W! BUT IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THEY DIDN'T REQUIRE PHONE NUMBERS AT ALL.

My messages app

Nice.

Wen lightning.

Just send ecash to your mates.

The way I'm reading it is you will still need a phone number to sign up. The username is only for sharing. That is bull shit if its the case.

I played around with the beta. You still need your phone number.

Sounds like it, and if someone is using the old version of the app they'll still be able to find you so backend hasn't changed at all.

WHY PHONE NUMBER AT ALL

Why doesn’t Signal just use #nostr nsec keys instead of user names

Or better yet why don’t people just stop using centralized services like Signal and migrate to #nostr altogether

Because anyone can login with your npub and see ALL of your messages?

You can only log in with an nsec and the nsec is secret, so no one other than yourself would be able to log into your account without having your nsec/secret key

The npub key is the public key, which only shows/shares someone’s profile but doesn’t let you login with it

npub (the public key) is basically your web address, nsec (the secret key) is your username and password in one

You can't send messages, but you can read them with the npub.

That app wasnt the one that Tucker have the encryption broken when maked the entreview with Putin?

ABOUT TIME LFG FREEDOM TECH

"Unless people have your exact unique username, they won't even know that you have a Signal account even if they have your phone number."

That was so bad.

“You will still need a phone number to signup for Signal”

Peeps just use silent.link for your #

Need a bounty for voip service on something like proton for biz operations. The problem is if a number is routed through any mainstream carrier tower it's not private. Doesnt matter if you use Signal, VPN, etc. The hardware and network is compromised. Still, some degree of privacy is better than nothing.

huge

BOUT DAMN TIME

Simplex dead now? Hard sell over this version of Signal for genpop

You still need a phone number to sign up though

Simplex is better