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
Seriously. I’m getting really sick of OPs take, it is a fundamentally flawed and ignorant understanding of what privacy and anonymity are.
If I’m at work and I need to speak to someone in private, we can go in a room and close the door. That’s a PRIVATE conversation. It doesn’t mean that nobody heard me say “hey Bob, can I talk to you for a minute?” It doesn’t mean nobody saw us go in there and shut the door. The conversation is still private.
It’s NOT private if someone is listening up against the door, or if there’s a recording device in the room (in our analogy most messenger services and protocols fit here).
Signal IS PRIVATE CONVERSATION. But there’s metadata about who is talking to whom, and it’s NOT anonymous for the reasons OP pointed out, even if OP is a rabble rousing idiot.
Signal is private, free, accessible, and has a good feature set. Their foundation is a nonprofit with ethical motives, and it’s widely adopted worldwide because it fills a very real, very necessary niche.
Signal is NOT anonymous. If you want to be anonymous online you’ve got a lot, possibly an insurmountable amount, of work to do. Signal should not be a part of that because it’s NOT anonymous.
Quit strawmanning a good thing because it’s not what you’re looking for.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242-Twilio-Incident-What-Signal-Users-Need-to-Know
That is a compromise of privacy. If those hackers used those phone number to access any account by using unique methods those users privacy would be utterly lost.
Sounds like a lack of security rather than a lack of privacy.
It is certainly a lack of security. I wanted to emphasize how it’s also a problem for privacy. People in the thread are now having an imaginary argument about anonymity, even though this has never been something I’ve been confused about. However, it is something that one of the users pulled up, and now they all are harping on it over and over.
Since my phone number is one of my personal belongings, although abstract, if I hide it from you, it is private. If I reveal it to you, it is not. Since it is associated with me, revealing it to you lowers my privacy, as it is one more thing revealed that belongs to me.
These fools can’t even comprehend this, literally.