SaberhagenTheNameless on Nostr: Yes, that is annoying and I understand the complaints. But Signals draw is for ...
Yes, that is annoying and I understand the complaints.
But Signals draw is for everyday people that want easy accessible privacy. We aren't the target audience. Most people have phones. Signal is available on iOS too not just Android.
The phone number requirement is for simple spam deterrence and convenient contact discovery for users. Signal can't see phone numbers or contacts because everything is hashed client-side on your device before it goes to their servers.
But like I showed above it's fairly easy to get around using your real phone number and register in an anonymous way. And because of sealed sender Signal can't see your social graph. You can also use forked Molly client for even more security and privacy.
Signal is open source and reproducible so you can verify what the code is doing yourself:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reproducible-builds
https://www.signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
https://www.signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
https://molly.im/
But Signals draw is for everyday people that want easy accessible privacy. We aren't the target audience. Most people have phones. Signal is available on iOS too not just Android.
The phone number requirement is for simple spam deterrence and convenient contact discovery for users. Signal can't see phone numbers or contacts because everything is hashed client-side on your device before it goes to their servers.
But like I showed above it's fairly easy to get around using your real phone number and register in an anonymous way. And because of sealed sender Signal can't see your social graph. You can also use forked Molly client for even more security and privacy.
Signal is open source and reproducible so you can verify what the code is doing yourself:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reproducible-builds
https://www.signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
https://www.signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
https://molly.im/