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How to share confidential information? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by yxzi@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm using Signal, but after I found out that it's not as privacy-friendly as it claims, I'm uneasy about sharing my address there. I trust the person who asked for my address, but not the service. What's a safe way to share? I was thinking of something like a self-destructing pastebin, but surely you have better ideas.

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[–] PM_ME_UR_PCAPS@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Which of Signals privacy claims are false?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Pretty much everything about it is unverifiable, because its a centralized service and you ultimately don't know what the server is running. Contrast that with self-hostable apps which must pass verifiability checks, because people can host their own instance.

[–] ancom@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Clients are open source. Independent clients exists and they work. So the server must kind of do what signal claims, otherwise those devs would notice.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

You have no idea what the server is running. It has your phone number, ie your real name and address, and it knows who you sent messages to.