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Apple is likely to stop providing its encrypted cloud service to U.K. users

I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I’m also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•5 hours ago

    I have to wonder if you could use a burner number and just disable it after setting up your username

    • @mipadaituEnglish
      3•4 hours ago

      I think you’d have a theoretical issue if the next person who got that number also tried to set up a signal account.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•4 hours ago

        You might be right. I’ll have to go double check, but I don’t think that you can just set up a new account with the same number without the password you set up.

        I might be wrong, though.