Sorry what?

Oh but that’s still better than I expected.

In addition to that, in most European countries you have to register with your ID in oder to get a mobile phone number. So its provably end-to-end related to your identity.

I prefer apps that require no phone number. Like Threema, SimpleX, Session, Status, XMPP, or Tox.

SimpleX is good tho.

How does signal match your contacts based on their phone number then?

Hashing doesn’t really do anything because there are too few possible phone numbers. Easy to bruteforce. See the researchers who enumerated the WhatsApp users database recently via the internet…

Culture. For the same reason why in american music every swearword is beeped out, which seems ridiculous to everyone else in the world. It’s just how it is.

Still didn’t pass the parliament. What makes you think it will pass this time?

Did someone call me?

Fortunately VPN exists in Italy, too.

Seems that his critique was absolutely justified.