Nowadays, a majority of apps require you to sign up with your email or even worse your phone number. If you have a phone number attached to your name, meaning you went to a cell service/phone provider, and you gave them your ID, then no matter what app you use, no matter how private it says it is, it is not private. There is NO exception to this. Your identity is instantly tied to that account.
Signal is not private. I recommend Simplex or another peer to peer onion messaging app. They don’t require email or phone number. So as long as you protect your IP you are anonymous
Try looking up “privacy vs anonimity” (or a similar search query). You may find that your post is talking about anonimity, not privacy.
Signal is private.
God damn. If you attach your phone number to it. It is not private in most users cases the identity it tied to the phone number. Signal knows the phone numbers and you better understand that they will reveal them if ever requested.
Did you look it up?
Yes, as I said, the government can tell if you use Signal or not by asking Signal (by providing Signal a phone number and asking if they have a record of it).
It’s not anonymous in that sense, but it is still private because your messages cannot be revealed by such data requests.
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No you all are SIMPs for signal. You all are promoting it like you work for them. All because you’re too stupid (lack of having information) to understand they are a bad choice for privacy
Yep we’re all out to get you. We have meetings and everything. We have a pot luck on Sunday, and you cannot come.
How are you still unable to differenciate privacy and anonimity.
And you are calling us stupid for using Signal…
Seriously, use whatever you are comfortable with, but don’t spread misinformation and panic.