Over-all, I think this new @signalapp feature is potentially valuable, clever, good/great for some use cases, but is potentially horrible for some others, and increases/hardens the linkage between person-and-phone-number. Which worries me quite a lot.
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This could - in theory - result in a stampede to add a PIN to your number… and then what? Forget the PIN when you swap phones? Then you must change your number in order to regain access to Signal. But if you *DON'T* add a PIN to avoid this risk, a third party could leverage it.
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In short: this is one of those "MUST NOT FUCK UP" features, like Bitcoin Wallet Passwords.
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Alec Muffett Retweeted Rufo
ooh: looking like it might just be a 7 day lock, which is better:https://twitter.com/hilare_belloc/status/974731891109761032 …
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