{"id":5836,"date":"2024-03-05T12:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:54:46","slug":"why-signal-turned-our-architecture-inside-out-for-its-latest-privacy-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/5836","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d81b6b7cf48\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d81b6b7cf48\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>5836"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: to allow users to make contacts without revealing their phone numbers, but avoiding creating new surfaces for harm (spam, abusive usernames) in the process (which also eliminates all the issues that username moderation would bring).<\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/03\/04\/why-signal-turned-our-architecture-inside-out-for-its-latest-privacy-feature\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Why Signal \u2018turned our architecture inside out\u2019 for its latest privacy feature | TechCrunch\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/meredith-whittaker-3.jpg?resize=1200,801\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Why Signal \u2018turned our architecture inside out\u2019 for its latest privacy feature | TechCrunch<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">\u201cThe user name is not a handle. It\u2019s not shown inside the app; it\u2019s not something we have a directory for. But it replaces the phone number when you go to initiate contact.\u201d<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: to allow users to make contacts without revealing their phone numbers, but avoiding creating new surfaces for harm (spam, abusive usernames) in the process (which also eliminates all the issues that username moderation would bring).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[31120,18,19,31119,31121],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-meredith-whittaker","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-signal","tag-taiwan","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5838,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}