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Signal knows who you’re talking to – Sane Security Guy (sanesecurityguy.com)
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[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The main advantage of Signal was the SMS integration, which meant you no longer had to use the SMS app itself. In addition, SMS messages were displayed like a chat. That's why it needed to be linked to your cell phone number, but since they're no longer allowed to offer that anyway, they could have done a clean sweep of existing accounts and adapted the entire login process.