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All of Telegram's Lies About Privacy
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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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Yeah, the glaring problem of having to share your phone number is gone too:
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-Phone-Number-Privacy-and-Usernames
They still tie it to your ID since you need the phone number.
And we just trust them not to share your social map to NSA which they totally don't do. Trust me bro
The NSA already has your social map from Apple, Google, Facebook/whatsapp, plus a hundred other sources you've given access to your contacts in the past decade.
Even if you've never used any of those, or given any app access to your contacts, 99% of your contacts have.
Data is about as good as it is current though and many people are reducing their exposure to these parasites
A person can now pretty easily go without logging into any of these apps with a few adjustments.
Hence why signal relationship maps will be even more valuable going forward. Hence my theory about signal...
I'm not getting you.
There's correspondence, there's metadata, and there's phone-ID relationship.
Signal still protects #1 and #2 better than #3. And the way it works, infrastructure load is much bigger than for most other messaging platforms. So it makes total sense they limit registration somehow .
I'm not sure I remember by now what I've read about Signal protocol, but I think the fact of who messages whom they don't have, so it's not just trust.
~~Anyway, if you've read about 90s' mixmaster servers for mail, while Signal developers don't approve of alternative clients, there are libraries and it's possible to make some kind of a mixmaster bot. ~~
I've left this, because it's funny as a good illustration of why they don't want alternative clients, among other things - because I've described a voluntary MITM.