▲ -33 ▼ Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com) submitted 2 years ago by narwhal@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Bad actors can buy one. What does it cost to buy hundreds? It's a great deterrent to bad actors creating many accounts. I really, really, really dislike using my phone number to verify. Like so much so it kept me off signal until about 6 months ago. I get it. I don't like it, but I get the compromise until they can develop a better mechanism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) deleted permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 point 2 years ago You could run a network like signal, and either charge a small amount of money per message, or a larger amount of money to register with the network. Hell you could do the WhatsApp model, charge a dollar for new users, the pay for the registration verification. The same thing. You just need some mechanism to add friction for mass spamming, be that money time or complexity. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Bad actors can buy one. What does it cost to buy hundreds? It's a great deterrent to bad actors creating many accounts. I really, really, really dislike using my phone number to verify. Like so much so it kept me off signal until about 6 months ago. I get it. I don't like it, but I get the compromise until they can develop a better mechanism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) deleted permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 point 2 years ago You could run a network like signal, and either charge a small amount of money per message, or a larger amount of money to register with the network. Hell you could do the WhatsApp model, charge a dollar for new users, the pay for the registration verification. The same thing. You just need some mechanism to add friction for mass spamming, be that money time or complexity. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) deleted permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 point 2 years ago You could run a network like signal, and either charge a small amount of money per message, or a larger amount of money to register with the network. Hell you could do the WhatsApp model, charge a dollar for new users, the pay for the registration verification. The same thing. You just need some mechanism to add friction for mass spamming, be that money time or complexity. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 point 2 years ago You could run a network like signal, and either charge a small amount of money per message, or a larger amount of money to register with the network. Hell you could do the WhatsApp model, charge a dollar for new users, the pay for the registration verification. The same thing. You just need some mechanism to add friction for mass spamming, be that money time or complexity. permalink fedilink source parent