nroth comments on German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns

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[–] nroth@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

How does being email-based instead of phone-number-based meaningfully help security? I would understand something like non-federated Matrix, where only approved users have accounts on your instance. Less phishing at the cost of convenience.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

... or they could just use Molly if they want to sign up with just their email and not a phone number but otherwise still use all the same privacy tech

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