Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number privateijeff@lemdro.idmod to Android@lemdro.id – 309 points – 8 months agobleepingcomputer.com34Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentWithout phone-number based contact finding signal wouldn't be relevant enough to matter.Security and privacy be damned.IRC, AIM, and BBM did ok without it. We humans like talking to each other. We figure it out.Those were before the smartphone era. Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn't stand a chance.Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn't show a good track record.None of those are relevant today, phone numbers still are.
Without phone-number based contact finding signal wouldn't be relevant enough to matter.Security and privacy be damned.IRC, AIM, and BBM did ok without it. We humans like talking to each other. We figure it out.Those were before the smartphone era. Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn't stand a chance.Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn't show a good track record.None of those are relevant today, phone numbers still are.
IRC, AIM, and BBM did ok without it. We humans like talking to each other. We figure it out.Those were before the smartphone era. Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn't stand a chance.Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn't show a good track record.None of those are relevant today, phone numbers still are.
Those were before the smartphone era. Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn't stand a chance.
Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn't show a good track record.
Without phone-number based contact finding signal wouldn't be relevant enough to matter.
Security and privacy be damned.
IRC, AIM, and BBM did ok without it. We humans like talking to each other. We figure it out.
Those were before the smartphone era.
Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn't stand a chance.
Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn't show a good track record.
None of those are relevant today, phone numbers still are.