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Is Signal messaging really private? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by harfang@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What's your thoughts about it ? I'm also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it...

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[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The face that Signal needs phone numbers to sign up is very bad.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No one that has told me this has ever been able to offer up any sort of explanation, but please do feel free to give it ago.

[–] msherburn33@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Multiple-accounts and pseudonyms. It's like the 101 of interacting on the Internet. With a phone number requirement that's automatically made impossible.

Also SIM-cards/phone numbers are required by law to be attached to your real world identity in many countries.

[–] artyom@piefed.social -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Multiple-accounts and pseudonyms

What about them?

Also SIM-cards/phone numbers are required by law to be attached to your real world identity in many countries.

Why is that a problem?

[–] msherburn33@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is that a problem?

Why are you posting as artyom@piefed.social and not @?

[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...because this is not a private message? And because my home address is not a piefed server. Such a weird question...

[–] saimen@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SS7 hacking can intercept your calls and text messages as well as your location just by knowing your phone number.

https://youtu.be/wVyu7NB7W6Y

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't understand what that has to do with this conversation. Signal does not advertise your phone number to anyone that doesn't already have it.