@dave_andersen @AVincentInSpace personally I consider any "#KYC" a risk-factor, and @signalapp has proven their ability and willingness to restrict functionality (i.e. their #Shitcoin-#Scam #MobileCoin) based off said #PhoneNumbers (Cuban, Russian and North Korean Numbers were excluded) which are in fact #PII (even if one doesn't have to #ID for obtaining a #SIM, they are circumstantial PII)...

• They have neither "legitimate interest" nor legal mandate to collect said data (or to integrate a scammy Shitcoin for that matter) as the discontinuation of #ChatSecure / #TextSecure has eliminated the "technical necessity" to have those.

Either way they either have to yeet #Hegseth as client and/or stop collecting PII like PhoneNumbers - they gotta have to do something…

• As for #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec, I'd say #XMPP+#OMEMO remains the gold standard alongside #PGP/MIME...

#ITsec is a different story, but unlike #Signal these do not depend on a #PhoneNumber and work through @torproject / #Tor.

• And I've been using Tor for almost 15 years daily now...