monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-22 days agoWe have a group in Signal dedicated to privacy, FOSS, deGoogling, etc. If anyone is interested, you are welcome to join.lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1imageWe have a group in Signal dedicated to privacy, FOSS, deGoogling, etc. If anyone is interested, you are welcome to join.lemmy.dbzer0.commonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewindpunch@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day ago Signal knows all of their users’ phone numbers. Only the hash of your phone number.
minus-squareCosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 hours agoHow exactly is it hashed? There aren’t that many possible phone numbers, so it might be viable to just try every valid number until you find one that matches
minus-squarewindpunch@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-251 minutes agoHere’s what Signal says: https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/
Only the hash of your phone number.
How exactly is it hashed? There aren’t that many possible phone numbers, so it might be viable to just try every valid number until you find one that matches
Here’s what Signal says: https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/
Good correction, thanks