AwesomeLowlander comments on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Still not seeing how it would work. You're dropping random bits of the system and saying it would work but it's too complicated for you to explain, so there's really nothing to discuss.

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

not op but signal has basically solved this. users are not just randomly accessible by anyone. they can share a long URL that contains an ID, or make a short username they like and pass around to people. and even then the recipient has to accept being contacted by each other user

true that signal now relies on the phone number system for trust and safety, but that's not core to how signal works, it could be replaced if they really wanted.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

At that point, you (well, not you per se) are basically suggesting to replace the telephone system with a Signal-esque system. Which would break a billion things in real life, for little to no gain.

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

any change would break a billion things in real life, so we could at least have a proper replacement.

the problem with signal here is that it's centralized, probably couldn't even handle the load besides other problems. but that's solvable, like look at simplex which is similar

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