The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?
Because you want to use it to talk to your friends, who know who you are anyway? I don’t get this need to wipe yourself completely from the face of the Earth.
IMO the issue with Signal’s lack of anonymity isn’t that your friends know who you are; it’s that Signal itself can build a graph of everybody’s contacts.
Because you want to use it to talk to your friends, who know who you are anyway? I don’t get this need to wipe yourself completely from the face of the Earth.
IMO the issue with Signal’s lack of anonymity isn’t that your friends know who you are; it’s that Signal itself can build a graph of everybody’s contacts.