I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    42·
    11 hours ago
    1. they were talking of something like year 2003, when they were commonly not.
    2. no, PSTN is not private.
    3. for something end-to-end encrypted, including message metadata (not connection metadata), this statement seems amazingly stupid ; “simple heuristics” are usually used on something like plaintext e-mail.
    • 0101100101@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago
      1. no they weren’t. no moving of goalposts
      2. what’s my number then?
      3. amazingly not stupid. dunning kruger and all that.
      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 hours ago
        1. People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on.
        2. A sequence of digits.
        3. OK, what are your “simple heuristics” for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that?