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submitted 2 weeks ago by blicante@moist.catsweat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy.

Maybe it'll be useful?

Before joining

Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here's a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to:

set a username
change your profile name (these are two separate things!)
hide your phone number

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[-] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Arguable in it being "the best app for privacy". Can you link to a source which shows that phone numbers are not linked to accounts? (Why do they need them anyway?)

[-] uiiiq@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

They have published requests from the law enforcement and their responses to these requests. The only unencrypted data they have is the phone number, a date of sign up and a date of the last login. That is it, everything else is encrypted and they cannot access it whatsoever.

[-] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

The problem is, if you're in Europe, your phone number is associated with your identity

[-] blicante@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes, but that's it. Authorities and signal itself can only say "this number has account with us since $signupDate and used it last on $usageDate". Signal can't say "we know $number is talking to $otherNumber" nor can they say "$number is in $group talking to $users".

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