Signal Rolls Out Phone Number Privacy and Usernames for Everyone in v7.0
"Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features."
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To be clear, you still need a phone number to use Signal, yeah?
This just obscures it from other users?
That seems to be the case, yes. However, Signal doesn't typically discriminate against VOIP/mysudo phone numbers
Just saw this! 🔥🔥🔥
Go to Settings -> Privacy -> Phone number
Select: Who can see my number: Nobody
Wen cashu telegram groups moving to signal?
Go to Settings -> Privacy -> Phone number
Select: Who can see my number: Nobody
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This also includes users for #Molly. Molly is recommended if you decide to use Signal as a messenger.
Use Molly with Unified Push using your own Nextcloud server for push notifications so Google/Apple aren't selling three 3-letters info about who you're talking to.
Side note: This Unified Push thing has been draining my battery a lot. My apps that poll for notifications use less battery.
Signal is a metadata-spreader in the sence of the US-Services.
All traffic of the SignalApp goes over the clouds of Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Cloudflare - here are the subdomains:
Amazon:
textsecure-service.whispersystems.org, cdn.signal.org, sfu.voip.signal.org
Google:
storage.signal.org, contentproxy.signal.org
Microsoft:
api.directory.signal.org, api.backup.signal.org
Cloudflare:
cdn2.signal.org
You can check it by yourself by making a tracert on these subdomains in your console!
Signal only talks about "third partys"! Not telling their users how long they store their (encrypted) messages and who got access to them.
As 85% of all smartpones run on googles Android - which sends information to google about their users every day - incl. the IP !
So with all the messages from signal google can easily tell who is talking to who. Which gives them a huge amount of metadata.
Especially in combination with US (Spy) Cloud-Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
all US Services can access the cloudstorage of Signal Messages.
If you are looking for a really secure messenger: Check out Threema - which is no. 1 in all messenger-comparison-charts!
This is simply ridiculous. If you keep having to disclose your cell phone number then you have no privacy at all, at least at that level.
But you can't delete it for your own security. But it's stored but nobody sees it. WHO? Nobody.