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newman314 on July 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

While having Signal is great, one thing I don't like is the use of phone numbers as identifiers. Why can't we have the option of using a random string?

em3rgent0rdr on July 10, 2015 [–]

secure transmission of texts is the goal, not providing anonymity of sender and receiver.

newman314 on July 10, 2015 | [–]

Why not do both (one optionally)?

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