analysing network traffic wouldn’t allow an adversary to see what you’re sending with Signal

How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It’s encrypted. And why does it matter if they know you’re sending a message? Literally everyone using Signal is sending a message.

I read it and don’t understand. Why is this better than Signal? Or the 500 other secure file/messaging protocols?

Jabber seemed to work perfectly for Snowden…

And it’s always been trash. That’s how you know it will always be there in the future too.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

LOL you think messaging friends, family and clients is “the wrong purpose”? According to whom?

If you actually read my comment before replying to it, I already addressed this. I use Signal in my personal and professional life. I do not want my clients to message me and see my ID as fucking xX_StarLord_69_Xx. Nor my family. It would be very confusing to them. If Signal gave me an option to use multiple profiles (like SimpleX does) I would, but it doesn’t.

1. No, that’s not me. Signal should let me join groups without my username (this is what SimpleX does)

2. The point is not to blame Signal, the point is to highlight that it’s not safe to join these groups with Signal for this reason, and political action groups should not be using it for this reason, unless you use it exclusively for this purpose, which is also not good, because then it means you’re not using it for your private/personal communications.

My username is my name. As is my profile.

Thank you

Nextcloud?

It certainly had some Mastodon code but I think they sent them a C&D and they removed the it.

“the messaging service X”

Yes but which messaging service?

alternativeto.net

They also have the best tech/software blog I’ve ever seen

There is no security issue that I’m aware of.

Simplex does not give you anymore security. It does however, provide anonymity.

like everything else on Signal, is also end-to-end encrypted

That’s fine if one of those ends isn’t a public activism group.

If you don’t want your name and profile picture shared with randos, either don’t set them

I use Signal to talk to people in real life, both personally and professionally. I don’t want to message them from some sort of unidentifiable alias.

or don’t chat with randos.

That was my point, thank you.

Not worried about my phone number, I’m more worried about my profile.

Not worried about my phone number so much as my legal name…

If you join a large WhatsApp group, anyone in that group will have everyone else’s phone number, and they can use that to learn far more about everyone’s identities.

Does it not give away your identity when you join a Signal group?

So…wood?