I’m using Signal, but after I found out that it’s not as privacy-friendly as it claims, I’m uneasy about sharing my address there. I trust the person who asked for my address, but not the service. What’s a safe way to share? I was thinking of something like a self-destructing pastebin, but surely you have better ideas.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    You have no idea what the server is running. It has your phone number, ie your real name and address, and it knows who you sent messages to.

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      2 years ago

      But it doesn’t though. That information has been subpoenaed from signal in the past. They don’t have access to it to give. This is public information.

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          2 years ago

          Yeah that’s exactly my point. Other guys was listing all these things the signal has stored but they really just don’t want access to any of it.

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          IDK if this an issue on my app specifically, but it looks like you put the wrong things in the parentheses there.