@SuspiciousFlop8964@sh.itjust.works
2026-03-12 15:52 UTC
But Signal is legal in France, so what would be the point? There's no need to hide that you're using it.
Also, that wouldn't give you a higher level of privacy. Email records a lot of metadata unencrypted: The sender, recipient, subject line, and time sent. That's way more compromising than the fact that you're using Signal.
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@TheFool@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-12 16:17
Fair point, and it seems like I was wrong about the phone numbers in France. If you can use an anonymous prepaid phone number, it makes sense to use Signal + TOR. But in many European countries, even though Signal is legal, you have to provide your legal ID to get a phone number, so your Signal account is never anonymous, as opposed to a free Proton Mail address, which you can create without providing any information.