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Signal Piracy group (signal.group)

I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy.

Maybe it'll be useful?

Before joining

Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here's a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to:

  • set a username
  • change your profile name (these are two separate things!)
  • hide your phone number
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[-] blicante@moist.catsweat.com 53 points 1 month ago

Signal doesn't collect IPs and therefore can't even hand them out. It's been requested in 2021. Here's a list of requests from authorities they were allowed to publish. I've looked through 3 of the most recent and nowhere do they reveal IPs.

[-] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Sure they don't log the IPs, but it is technically impossible to not know the IP when you're running a centralized service.

[-] blicante@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 month ago

What are the "popular" alternatives? Telegram stores everything, WhatsApp doesn't allow usernames, Matrix requires IPs too...

[-] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago
[-] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn't have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the "right messaging" service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better).

[-] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
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