- yawn, vpns are a thing and strawman argument. point?
- my number is private. point?
- bs. spam is easy to detect across a large number of accounts using simpleheuristics. point?
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This is what the UK police do with WhatsApp data. Even though they can't read the messages, they do use the connections of messages to suspicious characters as evidence including date and times, which also puts these other people in the spotlight, opening further investigations.
The UK police can also use 'stinger' devices that are "fake" mobile data towers to intercept mobile communications.
opening the discussion again is just tiring.
so tiring that i opened it and read it, then typed a long response.
you will still need a phone number to sign up for Signal
I'm sure that just sets the database column hide_phonenumber to TRUE.
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush!
This experiment was not specifically about whether a kid would wait for the second marshmellow or not (which would be delayed by 20+ minutes), nor whether they would play with the roomful of toys, but to see how they grew up. The real test was to catch up with the adults and see how 'successful' they'd become. The experimenters found that those children who waited for the second marshmellow achieved higher grades and had more 'successful' better-paying careers.
It's the concept of delayed rewards vs immediate rewards and is prevalent in the world of machine learning.
huh? so the phone number is encrypted in a way that can't be read, but an sms is sent to the phone? ... a separate company sends the text on behalf of signal? so that separate company logs the phone number, the timestamp and who knows what else.