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  • Another aspect is the social graph. It’s targeted for normies to easily switch to.

    Very few people want to install a communication app, open the compose screen for the first time, and be met by an empty list of who they can communicate with.

    https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

    By using phone numbers, you can message your friends without needing to have them all register usernames and tell them to you. It also means Signal doesn’t need to keep a copy of your contact list on their servers, everyone has their local contact list.

    This means private messages for loads of people, their goal.

    Hey, we know this account sent this message and you have to give us everything you have about this account

    It’s a bit backwards, since your account is your phone number, the agency would be asking “give us everything you have from this number”. They’ve already IDed you at that point.





  • It was meant in jest, I should have contrasted plain text / cipher text to be more clear. Though it’s a similar kind of extenstion to email technology that they are advocating against.

    These folks want to read their emails in their terminal email client, and for you to cater to their limitations. If you use tuta and send them an email, tuta just emails them a link to view the message on tuta’s webapp. I’d say this anti-HTML group aren’t fans of that.

    Not to argue semantics, but I would consider encryption in general is a change in message formatting. The client needs to change how the bytes are interpreted. It adds complexity, and clients may not support it, their exact arguments against HTML.