Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
by giancarlostoro on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:32PM
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Who is dealing with the spam SMS messages I get all year round? Phone numbers do not stop spam, they are used to distribute it. I know I received no spam when I had Google Talk... It is a solvable problem that I guess benefits nobody in power to solve.
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Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
by colinmhayes on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:42PM
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Spam is one of the major reasons people don’t use sms. “The product Were replacing sucks so our product can suck too”
Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
by Aachen on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:58PM
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I don't use SMS because I can't download an open source client to use on desktop, send pictures or other files, edit messages, encrypt conversations, share a live location, hold a poll, have group chats with some semblance of scale, it just doesn't work for more than receiving an occasional message as last resort.
Spam via sms doesn't seem to really exist here, maybe two per year now, up from zero until three years ago.