Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dave_andersen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dave_andersen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://furry.engineer/@AVincentInSpace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AVincentInSpace</span></a></span> personally I consider any <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KYC</span></a>"</em> a risk-factor, and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@signalapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>signalapp</span></a></span> has proven their <em>ability and willingness</em> to restrict functionality (i.e. their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Shitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shitcoin</span></a>-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scam</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MobileCoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MobileCoin</span></a>) based off said <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PhoneNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhoneNumbers</span></a> (Cuban, Russian and North Korean Numbers were excluded) which are in fact <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PII</span></a> (even if one doesn't have to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ID</span></a> for obtaining a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SIM</span></a>, they are circumstantial PII)... </p><ul><li>They have neither <em>"legitimate interest"</em> nor legal mandate to collect said data (or to integrate a scammy Shitcoin for that matter) as the discontinuation of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ChatSecure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatSecure</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TextSecure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TextSecure</span></a> has eliminated the <em>"technical necessity"</em> to have those.</li></ul><p>Either way they either have to yeet <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> as client and/or stop collecting PII like PhoneNumbers - <em>they gotta have to do something</em>…</p><ul><li>As for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpSec</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComSec</span></a>, I'd say <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a>+<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OMEMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OMEMO</span></a> remains the gold standard alongside <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PGP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PGP</span></a>/MIME...</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ITsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ITsec</span></a> is a different story, but unlike <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> these do not depend on a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PhoneNumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhoneNumber</span></a> and work through <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a>.</p><ul><li>And I've been using Tor for almost 15 years now...</li></ul>