Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.

Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.

  • Greg ClarkeEnglish
    11•4 months ago

    Signal has account pins now so I don’t think the attack vector is as large as it used to be

        • @PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml
          8•4 months ago

          Register a new account over that phone number. They can’t get into any previous accounts register with that phone number. They could potentially manage to find the pin if the previous user really used a guessable one, but then again, they won’t be able to check the previous messages and the linked owner of that account will be warned of that new connection.

          • atro_city
            8•4 months ago

            I don’t think that’s possible with a registration lock unless you are inactive for longer than 7 days.

            Enabling a registration lock triggers a 7-day inactivity timer if your number is registered on another device.