Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GrapheneOS</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@signalapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>signalapp</span></a></span> TBH, I think that <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AntiSpam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiSpam</span></a>"</em> is a bad excuse, because it penalizes honest users and enables abusers who have entire number blocks to spare...</p><ul><li><p>Furthermore it also allows LEAs to track who is a Signal user, and in sple places (i.e. Belgium) using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a>|s is enough to get a warrant for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/wuretapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wuretapping</span></a> signed, so it only adds <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> to onboard and no benefit to the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>users</span></a>.</p></li><li><p>They could've chosen different approaches to combatting <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a>, ranging from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Invites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Invites</span></a> to a slowly growing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trust</span></a>-level system that makes <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Spamming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spamming</span></a> costly, slow and unfeasible on the platform.</p></li></ul><p>Sadly, I'm not being paid to fix this and thus I'm not allowed to fix it at all...</p>