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Interesting! Thanks Dr. Hax (npub16v8…eqha)!

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Boo hoo, #Signal pays $6,000,000 USD/year to send SMS messages. If they would have implemented usernames instead of continuing to make phone numbers the only option, maybe they wouldn't have that bill!

"The biggest chunk of those infrastructure costs, fully $6 million annually, goes to telecom firms to pay for the SMS text messages Signal uses to send registration codes to verify new Signal accounts’ phone numbers."

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-operating-costs/

I no longer recommend Signal to people. The idea that I should donate to them is laughable. They were amazing when it was TextSecure & RedPhone. They even survived the transition to using data. But they have strayed from the path.

They don't allow any other Signal clients to connect weigh any of their users. They even blocked the open source version of their app from being published in F-Droid. They force everyone to give out their phone number to everyone they talk to on Signal. They put engineering effort into STOP encrypting SMS messages at rest and then prevent users from using old versions of ths app that retained these features. They closed the ticket that raised privacy concerns about Signal proxies to circumvent censorship, then subsequently disabled issue reporting all together.

There are good people working there, and they've done a tremendous amount of good for privacy, but past performance doesn't excuse their present actions. #SorryNotSorry