Since Signal Login is brand new and developing Signal Desktop as a standalone app requires a huge amount of work, it’s possible that the initial release will still require a phone number. However, this doesn’t have to be a number associated with a smartphone. Any phone number that can receive an SMS or a phone call should work, including landline numbers and numbers used with basic phones or dumb phones. This will make Signal accessible to users without a smartphone.

Missing the point pretty hard, eh? People who want this feature are hoping to add anonymity to the privacy that Signal’s encryption provides.

Scammers also want anonymity, which feels like why Signal has been so reluctant to provide it.

Drug dealers here used to use wiccr, which was shutdown when it pivoted to a military communcations platform

also, nothing wrong with doing some drugs bud :) get better friends

Exporting chats allows you to store and review conversations outside the app.

The export includes all your chats; exporting individual conversations is currently not supported.

So how does this work? You have to export your entire, let's call it a, library? Every message to and from every contact. Then how do you read it, like literaly looking at a json with the {brackets: {and colons: and indentations}} and stuff?

So am I 😆🤣🤣

Your friends are stupid

Same as my friends

It is what it is...

I just laugh and say "You think I'm a drug dealer? Well, now I think you are a poor judge of character"
Depending on the person, I then say "So, you want some drugs?"

Hopefully they will support individual chats too at some point. Just learned about ChatMap from the Humanitarian OSM Team that helps with mapping in OSM which utilises chat exports.

That is very good

Because their drug-dealer uses signals and they're hoping to score some cheap from you.

Given that it's the most secure, drug dealers and buyers usually use it. Still dumb to accuse you though, tons of people use signal and have no interest in drugs.

True, but the question is about whether it is reasonable to infer someone is doing criminal things from their use of an encrypted messaging app. I don't use Signal so that police can't read my messages, I use it because it is good security practice to be sure that the only person who can read messages from me is the person I intend. If my partner and I are talking about private things that is our business, nobody else's, and if i use something like standard SMS to have that conversation it is out in the open for anyone to skin and see. I wouldn't want anyone looking in my underwear drawer, not because I have hidden drugs in there, just because it is private and not anyone else's business.

Becuase 3/4 people are r-worded and so you need to make at least 7 friends to have a better chance of finding someone who also uses drugs.

In all seriousness though it's essentially laziness at its core. Switching to signal incurs a debt where you have to consider whether to continue using all of the other platforms where your privacy is not respected. This is an especially shit-uphill task today and as long as the majority that don't care about privacy can continue to live in relative safety, it's easier to dump on the guy that even hints at spending a metric shitton of effort on a task where your skill level is about on par with someone having just learned not to eat their boogers in public.

...no. The point is everyone else doesn't use Signal. So your analogy is not applicable.

Yes, that is the point. The use of a tool for privacy does not imply criminal activity, just as the use of a car does not imply running from police. I hope that makes sense.

Because most people in this world are NPCs.

Welp, if they don't care that anyone can watch their cameras, even the indoor ones, then yeah truly don't care about their privacy. So no reason to waste your time trying to convince them any further.

I guess

they have no idea what those are in here, also with the cameras in home it'd be the same as the previous answer

Id say: i dont have anything to hide, but some people do and I like to support them. Like people with autism for example. They shouldn't have to hide anything, but every now and then people in power use different groups of people as scapegoats to advance their agenda

Edit: typo

So does everyone else...?

Good thing you answered your own question.

Teach them about surveillance pricing, and about how corporations are using their data to drive up prices on things they need the most, exclusively for them. Hit em in their wallets and suddenly they start caring.

"How'd you manage that one?"

Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks.

Because its a encrypted messenger service?

Your body your choice. These people who judge you for using drugs are the same as those who protest planned parenthood 24/7.

This is called "projection." Now you know that your friends are on signal slinging drugs and you're missing out