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How I Got a Truly Anonymous Signal Account (theintercept.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

7 days?!? Jesus can we get at least a few years?? Thats worse than WhatsApp's 2 weeks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The fundamental problem is the signal foundation sees the phone number as the identity. If you don't have control of the phone number, you don't really have control of the identity.

The good news is, they let you change your phone number and maintain your contacts. But if the phone number the account is currently registered to get assigned to somebody else and you don't change it, then you're playing the 7-day roulette