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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Manalith@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really a work around, but you could get a VOIP number from MySudo or Hushed or a similar service and use that to sign up for Signal. Might at least be more private if you go about it with like a prepaid card and temp email or something.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought signal switched to allow usernames a few months ago

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

You can hide your phone number from other users, bit still need a phone number to sign up or to use your account.