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7eter@feddit.de to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Signal introduces usernames and phone number privacy.

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Signal introduces usernames and phone number privacy.

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7eter@feddit.de to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
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Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
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    I know what it is. It is not a barrier to entry though.

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      He explained why it is, so can you elaborate on why it’s not?

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        Because it’s not. I can spin any number of emulators or VMs that do any amount of work with a simple script, but that’s all it does. How does it prove I’m anything but a scripted, virtual instance of a person with a device?

        There’s a reason why Telegram is flooded with bots, Signal as of now has not been.

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          It’s a time and resource gate, not a way to prove that you’re a human.

          Also doesn’t Telegram require a phone number too?

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            You’re in the wrong thread.

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              I’m really not. Did you want to try making a coherent point again? Or are you all tapped out?

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                Yes. Please explain again how compute == human

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                  It doesn’t… No one was claiming that…

                  Are you lost?

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          Sure, if you had unlimited gpus with unlimited electricity then it wouldn’t keep you from spinning up unlimited bots

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            Bruh. No GPU needed. I build multiplatform apps daily on GitHub Actions. Dafuq you talking about?

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              how do you produce unique hashes with the correctly sized nonce?

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          Dafuq are you talking about ? Telegram does need phone numbers for sign up

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            Check that

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              Of course it does.

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          Bots can buy phone numbers, hell, they can solve most captchas better than humans.

          There’s a reason why Telegram is flooded with bots, Signal as of now has not been.

          Telegram requires a phone number, so it clearly isn’t working.

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