I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

  • coconut@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    It doesn’t matter whether a server claims to run free software or not. You can’t verify what it’s running. That’s why E2EE is designed entirely around the client. You can’t trust the server no matter what.

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      20 minutes ago

      Did anyone say that was the problem? It will not matter how encrypted your messages are when the centralised service gets easily banned.