• Lime Buzz@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    Okay, I’ll bite. But considering Signal has no data and very little metadata to give people, what exactly is the problem? What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

    Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact and can stop other from being able to do so.

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      3 months ago

      What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

      Message in big group chat and phone number. Message can for example say that war is bad, and as result you will be charhed with “discreditation of army”.

      Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact

      Phone number that tied to your passport. Yep, not sharing phone number to add a contact will magically help here.

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        3 months ago

        That’s fair, one reason I stay out of big groups, though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone, so I’m not fully grasping your argument.

        What do you mean by passport? It will a bit, if someone doesn’t know the phone number of an account that sent a message.

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          though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone,

          Is it something new? I don’t remember it being a thing.

          What do you mean by passport?

          In certain countries(Russia) you need passport to buy SIM card. So phone number is tied to person.