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idle_zealotlast Tuesday at 11:10 PM1 replyview on HN

How does this apply to, say, Signal?


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gzreadlast Tuesday at 11:36 PM

That's why Signal requires a phone number. You can't talk to people you don't know because complete strangers don't give you their phone number. And if you do spam random numbers, they'll report you to the police and you can be tracked down based on your identifier, which still doesn't leak the chats between you and people you actually know.

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