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Comment by Vinnl

2 years ago

OK, yeah, I meant "I'm not sure why you need to assume that it will be linked back to your real identity by Signal ?"

Fair enough, and I see where you're coming from.

Point remains that 33 bits will identify any given person among the 8 billions now living, and a phone number itself, plus ancillary leakage (activity patterns, location) are an exceptionally poor basis for an anonymous or pseudonymous identifier.