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I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

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[–] RockLobstore@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Tried session? Anyone have comments on it? Nice to be able to skip the phone and easily use vpn, though I haven’t spent enough time on that.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago

Session is a Signal fork and they removed forward secrecy which makes them vulnerable to Key Compromise Impersonation attacks.

[–] Desyn0xox@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

I think the people behind Session cares for their mission, and it might align with OP's, so maybe. Although I personally am not too fond of about all their choices.

The omission of Forward Secrecy for instance doesn't sit well with me. Each to their own though, and they do go into their reasoning on their blog: https://getsession.org/session-protocol-explained

Likewise their last audit from 2021, lists quite a handful of critical/moderate issues in their apps, hopefully they've fixet it. Afterall it's been a while since 2021. https://getsession.org/faq#security-audit