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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that they're reaching for emails in addition to phone numbers. Don't think for a second they're going to let you login with just email. They want email just to have yet another data metric to profile you with.

[โ€“] cheese_greater -1 points 9 months ago
  • using an insecure medium like email to facillitate access to e2eencrypted messages. 1) you cant do that with Signal