What's wrong with the public one?
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I'm interested. I'm already pretty active on Signal in anarchist adjacent groups.
Please reconsider. You can join a group like that without giving away your phone number to a person you don't know, asking for it online. See relevant comment in this comment section.
I haven't given my phone number out to anyone in the groups I'm in. They sent a group link.
They may see it if you have the privacy settings set to enable them to see your number. If you have the privacy settings set to hide your number, they will not see it.
It looks like this is a new (to me) feature I was not aware of and this is why I deleted the comment you replied to.
Since I consider this super important I would like to ask Smookey4444@anarchist.nexus to change the post description and ask for those who want to participate to follow the necessary steps as indicated by Signal (see here), before joining this group. Otherwise, it's a problematic situation on so many levels imo.
I am not happy about the amount of fedjacketing in this thread. Instead of calling users cops (as a joke), try better and provide information why joining Signal groups from anonymous users might involve some risk.
What I found more suspect is that fact they use Signal to voice chat. Encrypted: Jami & Jitsi exist for this. Unencrypted: mumble, Jabber, and Discord.
If you already have the group in Signal, using its encrypted voice chat makes sense.
Is Signal invaded by mercan spies? Is this request just an attempt by the CIA, FBI and NSA to get anarchists to self identify?
I think Signal is still pretty ok. This is not a great argument in its favor, but I personally know several US contractors and govt employees that still use it for coordination, and they wouldn't use it if they thought it was compromised (even by the US govt). A backdoor for one group means a backdoor for everyone.
Maybe, but you need to give it your mobile phone number, which makes it easy to get your real identity and even track your location.
The reason it's on signal is because a lot of the people that use it aren't on lemmy at all. They come from mastodon and raddle and places like that. Also we usually discuss the texts over a voice call instead of just on a forum
FYI you can hide your phone number from other Signal users.
To my understanding the backdoor was opened in 2021.
we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private
[source: Signal]
Why signal? Seems sus to go offsite like such.
Because not everyone in the group is on this site. And also we're going to do a voice call to discuss it
I will repeat stuff that are already present in this conversation because I consider this super important.
With Signal one has to share their phone number. Please don't share your phone number with random people you meet online.
That is not entirely correct. It could happen that you share your phone number unintentionally and its good to make people aware of that possibility, but Signal allows you to join groups without revealing your phone number.
More information on this here: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
Thank you for the info!
Just a reminder that Signal is not 100% open source since 2021. This means that we can no longer verify if what they say about privacy, security, etc, is true.
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