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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

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Re: AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

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Post by ghaff »

llm_trw wrote: post #24
jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you exclusively use signal? Do your friends also use signal? Do you have friends who only use signal to communucate with you?

Yes.

Aside from a couple non-US friends, I know no one in the US who uses anything other than straight SMS (and Apple iMessage). I'm sure they exist but certainly not in the circle of people I communicate with.

Re: AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

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Post by postexitus »

llm_trw wrote: post #24
jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you exclusively use signal? Do your friends also use signal? Do you have friends who only use signal to communucate with you?

Yes.

do you have friends in plural?

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Post by rustcleaner »

jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #21
hughesjj wrote: post #14

And this is yet another reason why I use signal

Do you exclusively use signal? Do your friends also use signal? Do you have friends who only use signal to communucate with you?

I am working on this with mine, but even Signal is too weaksauce in my book. Ownerless (and ideally decentralized) p2p chat is what I am after. If everyone in my group used Android then it'd be Briar or Cwtch hands down for primary text/picture msg and SimpleX or Session or Jami as voice/video call and backup. Because there's an iphone upsetting everything that scratches Briar and Cwtch, so it's SimpleX reinforced with Orbot on my group's menu currently and it seems to work reliably. Session has terrible notification delays when in the background, they use the [IMO] boneheaded send-on-select abstraction within the selection gallery when attaching an image on their Android app (oh and your unsent typed text is wiped). Very unprofessional, needs a bottom-up redesign for its interface. Really has that everyone quit feel to it.

Re: AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

ghaff wrote: post #31
llm_trw wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes.

Aside from a couple non-US friends, I know no one in the US who uses anything other than straight SMS (and Apple iMessage). I'm sure they exist but certainly not in the circle of people I communicate with.

There's definitely different circles in the US. My circle of friends and family is on Whatsapp. More than 99% of my communications would be through WhatsApp.

Re: AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

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Post by llm_trw »

postexitus wrote: post #32
llm_trw wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes.

do you have friends in plural?

I've gotten everyone from my in laws to my co workers on signal.

>I can share baby pictures without them being stored in google forever.

>We can organize whose bringing the coke without leaving a paper trail that lasts forever.

Re: AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

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Post by Aaronstotle »

John23832 wrote: post #9

How has Snowflake felt ANY recourse for being the source of all of these hacks?

its not Snowflake's fault their customers used weak passwords and no MFA. Not enforcing MFA does merit some blame on Snowflake, however, I still think its on the customer to secure your own environment.
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