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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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People who actually care about privacy: the quality or state of being apart from company or observation (definition), wouldn't want a company knowing their phone number and thus identity tied to their phone number. Maybe you believe in a lower level of privacy than I do. That's fine but my post was for people who never thought about it but will care and those who should care.
This is disturbing that this comment is down voted to -11, at the time of my reading, on a service that is specifically designed for people who value privacy. Is it because of some government bot, or are enough people really that emotionally attached to this product that despite the clear logic they are reacting in discomfort?
I don't know which option is more disturbing.
I get that a lot of people don't really value privacy that much, and are only interested in making a half hearted attempt. That is fine. But why the gross amount of denial? Why not just be honest that they think it is good enough for them, and not worth changing.
These people are sheep. It's insanity. They worship these companies I feel like I'm arguing with cultist
Signal doesn't know your phone number, though. It's only used to identify other users in your contacts, and not a single thing about it is stored.
That's not true. When asked to provide data, Signal is able to give your phone number and the last login time.
Signal stores the hash of the phone number. So you can query them for a specific phone number, but are unable to figure out phone numbers based on the hashes (outside of brute force - trying every 12-digit phone number).
And after doing that, you learn "this person uses/used Signal", with no information about particular messages whatsoever.
Okay, I was not aware that it was only the hash of the phone number. I was under the impression that it was the phone number itself.
Wow. You give them your phone number to sign up. They text you a confirmation code but they don't know your phone number. Magic