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And Signal forces you to use your phone number as your identifier, which can be traced relatively easily to a person or at least a geographical position by the authorities.

The content of the message might be encrypted, but metadata can provide valuable intelligence insights.

At least Matrix can be used mostly anonymously through a user-generated identifier, without an email address or phone number, and can be used through Tor.

parent m-p-3 5 years ago

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