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#Signal #Lifehack. When you register as new user, Signal asks you to provide "a" phone number where it can send a confirmation code to finalise the setup.
Know that it asks for "a" phone number that can receive messages. It doesn't have to be YOUR phone number. This is not a new feature, it has always been like that. I registered my Signal account using the phone number of a prepaid SIM in a cheap burner phone. I have never used that number since.
The only thing Signal stores about you is
- When did you register your account (UNIX timestamp)
- When was the last time your account contacted a Signal server (UNIX Timestamp)
That's it. That's all Signal can produce about you when they are forced to by authorities. There is no history, no call log, no data beyond that.
Here you can see a subpoena asking for detailed information and the reply that Signal sent back: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/
@jwildeboer : unfortunately, most people believe that they have nothing to hide.
@ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer My standard reply to them is 'so why do you have frosted glass in your bathroom window'?
@RosePuckey @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer Fun fact: There's a hotel in Dornbirn, Austria that doesn't. Yes, I can provide picture proof on request. No, I won't be staying there ever again.
@farbenstau @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer It must be for those who really have nothing to hide.
@RosePuckey @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer The thing is, the bathroom "window" there is a full-height glass wall between bathroom and bedroom. On the other side of the bedroom is the actual window to the outside. But, it doesn't have normal curtains, only blackout curtains.
So to use the bathroom or toilet, you had to turn on the light in the bedroom, and close the blackout curtains, before being able to use the bathroom/toilet.
For two-person rooms, they did have frosted glass, but not for single rooms.
@RosePuckey@beige.party@farbenstau @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer wow, that's kind of short sighted of them although somewhat amusing all the same. Sorry.
@RosePuckey @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer This wasn't the only weirdness in their rooms, by far …
@RosePuckey @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer (I don't want to derail your thread, but if you're curious, I can elaborate further …)
@farbenstau @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer lol, I have a good imagination, think I'll leave it there
@farbenstau : the last time (5 years ago or so) I was in a hotel in Austria, my girlfriend and I came to realize how good it is that smoking is forbidden in Dutch hotels.
Our bedroom was right above the bar. People below did not make a lot of noise late at night, but their cigarette smoke penetrated through the wooden floor of our bedroom. To make things worse for a beautiful environment (near the Nockalmstraße), it kept raining all the time. But that was after we had sunny weather in Vienna, so no hard feelings!
@ErikvanStraten @RosePuckey @jwildeboer I don't remember if this hotel allowed smoking in any of their rooms. Mine were non-smoking ones. The last Austrian hotel I was in had an ash-tray on a small balcony belonging to the room, but wouldn't allow smoking inside either (thank $DEITY).