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A secure communication app shouldn't know your phone number anyway.

Why not? It has to know some unique identifier or it can't route messages to you.

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The unique identifier doesn't have to be your phone number with your phone bill, credit card, and most importantly your name, attached to it...

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Anonymous and secure aren't the same thing.

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That's irrelevant since your phone number isn't required for either "secure" or "anonymous" communications

[–] 0 pt 2y

If only someone could invent some technology to generate random globally unique identifiers. Maybe some programmer can get on this. /s

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What makes a random globally unique identifier generated by Signal more private than the one generated by your cellular provider?

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The two aren't linked. Even if your Signal GUID is found, they can't go to the cell provider and get a trove of data on you.