@lackthereof it's not a "strange complaint", but a massive problem, because it creates dependency on a proven insecure network that is more often than not controlled if not run by hostile actors…

• Also #eMail, like #XMPP+#OMEMO, is based around #OpenStandards so you ain't forced to use any provider that is subject to #CloudAct nor known to snitch on customers without a valid domestic warrant…
  • And if you trust noone, you can just host your eMail Server on a Rasberry Pi at home. It'll certainly be less convenient and more expensive but the you also get all the benefits of it being not possible to seize it without breaking into your home.

@signalapp mandating #PhoneNumners is a huge red flag because at best any #PhoneNumber is pseudonymous like a #Shitcoin-Wallet and that any #privacy is broken the moment it has any (even remotely circumstantial) connection to someone.

• Because even if you ain't forced into #SelfDoxxing to obtain a #Prepaid - #SIM (aka. "#KYC") and/or Phone Number it is still a bad design.
  • Not to mention that this conpletely twarts their "#Metadata - #FUD" completely.

Not to mention #Signal's #App is a huge shitshow…

@divVerent The problem is that @signalapp mandates #PII like #PhoneNumbers, which is critical for said #phishing...

• If they actually did their infrastrutre setup correctly, this would not have been possible in the first place - ffs!
  • That's why I've never even seen nor heard of any #PhishingAttacks on #XMPP+#OMEMO because you don't have to self-d0x to a #centralized, proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider messenger which can't even be assed to get their garbage off #aws!

#Signal can spout all their "#Metadata" - #FUD all day but in the end they fall under #CloudAct and will snitch on users because if they didn't it would've been a statistical inevitability that @Mer__edith and #Moxie would've been in jail and Signal shutdown like #EncroChat was.

• Make of that what you will, but demanding a #PhoneNumber [which is either directly ("#KYC!") or indirectly / circumstantially linked to a person should be seen as *THE BIGGEST RED FLAG for any service.
  • It's like asking for an #ID at a store not as means to "verify age" with like a #DOB & Photo on something not trivial to forge but rather demanding someone's address just to buy a beer!

@earthshine precisely that is the poibt of it and also the correct answer to #FUD by #CCSS vendors (i.e. #Microsoft) against #FLOSS (i.e. #Linux)…

• Also #transparency is key, cuz then #Backdoors (i.e. #Govware) like #GoldenKeyBoot are nearly impossible to hide.
  • The middle-ground is #SourceAvailable like #Tarsnap, where providing the client sourcecode is done as means to build #trust with #evidence to claims (in this case 'here's the code, you have custody of all the keys, we never have them!'…

@opensuse #WhatsMissing: A #Linux - Countercampaign that takes the #Microsoft - #FUD against Linux ("#GetTheFacts") and instead of a mutating #Tux shows the #Enshittification and #Govware of #Windows (espechally #Windows 10 & #Windows11) and shows these as facts.

I just doubt @linuxfoundation has the spine to piss off a major donor (Microsoft) that way, so #Distros like @SUSE & @ubuntu should do it themselves!