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Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private (www.wired.com)

submitted 8 months ago by issue0315@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If one computer can create a single spam account every few minutes, imagine how many total spam accounts could be created by a small farm of computers, in a single day.

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 0 points 8 months ago

A lot, but farming phone numbers from poor countries is also cheap and Signal sends them insanely expensive SMS. There is no perfect solution, spammers aren't stupid. Since Signal is centralised they can enforce PoW incrementally if they get reports for spam, I still think it is way better than hCaptcha which is garbage.