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  • you can't wave your hands, say "zero knowledge", and be private. this is too little information to be useful
    by ynniv
  • Especially with AI agents being more common this would be very useful. I'd prefer to use Signal over telegram but haven't gotten around to getting another number.
    by sarjann
  • Lots of discussion at that link, but what's the bottom line? Can you register without a phone number yet?
    by rkagerer
  • What a headline!

    Meanwhile SimpleX and Delta Chat (over chatmail protocol) have it by default for years without any payment requirements, offer relatively better level of data security and are available on F-Droid main repo.

    by user10235
  • I don't trust Signal. The device OSes and hardware are opaque, chatty, not private or trustworthy, the network backbone is completely owned by dragnet surveillance, Dual_EC_DRBG flavored shenanigans, so how could an app running on top of this suddenly be trustworthy? Especially one that's super high profile which signals inside a dragnet "someone is working especially hard to make this secret".
    by user3939382
  • Per the commits, this will require a purchase with Google Play Billing to mitigate spam while keeping the SMS verification option.
    by opengrass
  • Signal needs to release all the infra automation code behind their backend. How they setup and manage it all should not be secret. It also makes it easy to rebuild if for some reason they are compromised. They've ghosted multiple people about this question. There's no reason a 501(c)(3) shouldn't release it.
    by purpleidea
  • For those who missed it, unrelated to this specific ZKP thing the release cycle also now permits Android tablets without a SIM to be first-class adjunct devices without using wierd tricks or alternate clients. It may permit them to be the initiation/sign-on device, which would invoke the ZKP, but the point for me as an existing phone number denominated user, the point is I can be on my tablet with true signal now. Nothing against molly, wanted it in the base.
    by ggm

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