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Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by GlitchMr on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:39AM (#23426001)
If that helps, there is a rate limit for checking whether a number is in Signal: with a single account, you can only check 4320 phone numbers a day. This makes mass user enumeration attacks somewhat less practical.
Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by ves on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:01AM (#23426122)
isn’t getting your hands on lots of sims/phone numbers, and thus Signal accounts, pretty trivial, though?
Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by numpad0 on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:48AM (#23426380)
Trivial as ordering a 2U 16 blade GSM modem array from AliExpress, sure