Subj : Re: the Parle alternative
To   : Shitty
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Jan 13 2021 04:14 pm

 Re: Re: the Parle alternative
 By: Shitty to Dumas Walker on Wed Jan 13 2021 07:24 am

>  DW> In short, that means an application that was supposed to be ahead of
>  DW> others when it came to privacy and not spying on you will now be spying
>  DW> on you.
>
> Yes - that sounds familiar. Many people won't care, and this is totally fine
> with Google I'm sure. But not me! I'd do just about anything to stop floatin
> my number around, including delete WhatsApp.

The problem comes when you work in such an environment that you either use
WhatsApp or you just don't do business.

In such case you only rational option is to have a separate phone line for
professional activities and run all the propietary anti-privacy surveilling
crap on that machine, that only runs during work hours and does not get exposed
to your personal information.

Signal has a big of a prohblem regarding concealing phone numbers. The hash
space is a bit small, so in theory they could try harvesting phone numbers via
hash attacks.

I think using phone numbers for account identification is a moronic idea which
only makes sense for the sake of simplifying helpdesk when your userbase has no
discipline to use a username and a password. The model really release the
customer support burden A LOT at the expense of requiring an important piece of
information from the user that should not be necesary to operate the service.

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