Re:Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
by sneak on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:06AM
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It is completely anonymous, there is no link from the telephone number used to register to the person using it.
Re:Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
by lxgr on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:11AM
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Yes, but you only have one number/identifier that links you across all contexts. That’s a pseudonym, which is a different thing from being anonymous.
You’d need multiple phones and a phone number per context to be actually anonymous. That’s just not practicable for many people, I’d say.
How? And even if that's feasible (for many people I'd argue it's too big a hurdle) it still only gets you pseudonymity.
There are some interesting encrypted messaging ideas floating around that allow you to have per-contact or even per-conversation keys or multiple identities for different contexts; Signal is just not doing much in that regard.