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While Signal did justify the need for numbers by cutting spam prevention I don’t get it…
Spammers use fake phone numbers all the time on the regular phone service so why not on Signal? A few steps too many for them to bother registering?
A few possible answers:
- Signal is not big enough for spammers to spend resources on
- People who bothered to use Signal are likely to be more privacy minded and therefore less likely to fall for scam
- Signal just isn’t as private as its marketing wants you to think it is
A tip (but you do you, of course), use something federated (XMPP!): the time for trusting a central organization to do no harm is over if you have kept tabs of anything internet over the last 40 years or so…
