Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private
Signal is now testing public usernames that allow users to conceal the phone numbers linked to their accounts while communicating with others.
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This is how Signal should have been designed in the first place.
Without phone-number based contact finding signal wouldn't be relevant enough to matter.
Security and privacy be damned.
IRC, AIM, and BBM did ok without it. We humans like talking to each other. We figure it out.
Those were before the smartphone era.
Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn't stand a chance.
Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn't show a good track record.
None of those are relevant today, phone numbers still are.
