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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you want to get really technical, each Signal account actually has a 'secret' account number that the phone number is linked to. The phone number requirement is actually a means to reduce spam and scam accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So they could have replaced it with, like, email verification or something, but they instead stuck to the design that lets governments identify all users?