I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy.

Maybe it’ll be useful?

Before joining

Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here’s a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to:

  • set a username
  • change your profile name (these are two separate things!)
  • hide your phone number
  • liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Arguable in it being “the best app for privacy”. Can you link to a source which shows that phone numbers are not linked to accounts? (Why do they need them anyway?)

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      3 months ago

      They have published requests from the law enforcement and their responses to these requests. The only unencrypted data they have is the phone number, a date of sign up and a date of the last login. That is it, everything else is encrypted and they cannot access it whatsoever.

        • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.id
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          3 months ago

          No you don’t.

          I can go to the corner shop/local garage right now, buy a SIM card for 99p and then buy a top-up voucher in cash to have a completely anonymous phone number.

          Albeit is the UK in Europe again? 🙈

          edit: where I would be worried if my privacy was on the line is I could also go to the local pawn shop / Cash Converters to ensure that SIM card isn’t associated with an IMEI I’ve previously used and buy in cash a cheapo phone.

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          3 months ago

          So what? The law enforcement knows you have an account and knows the sign up date and last login. That doesn’t affect your privacy whatsoever. Besides, Europe isn’t a monolith. You can absolutely buy and use a SIM card without disclosing your name in some countries.

        • blicante@moist.catsweat.comOP
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          Sometimes, but that’s it. Authorities and signal itself can only say “this number has account with us since $signupDate and used it last on $usageDate”. Signal can’t say “we know $number is talking to $otherNumber” nor can they say “$number is in $group talking to $users”.