Different spider, the meme is about Ungoliant

They’ve been working on a cloud backup feature, which might enable this.

Session eliminated perfect forward secrecy. Big no for those who take encryption seriously.

This is nonsense

I agree with a lot of what you say, but your last line is ridiculous. Everyone in LotR was armed to the teeth, and that was no hindrance to expressing their feelings for one another.

lol Herbert had some weird fantasy about a guy named Duncan from Idaho. Only explanation for some of that stuff.

They do not at this time intend to drop the phone number requirement, as they see it as an anti-spam measure. Meredith Whittaker has said as much. Phone number privacy is a project independent of requiring phone number at signup, and it just prevents other users from seeing your number.

Usernames have not been released yet. When they are released, phone number will still be required for registration, but you will be able to hide it from other people on Signal.

I’ve heard other scenarios of funky behavior with new devices. The new iPhone might see the charger as a device to be charged, not one that will charge the new iPhone.

Yeah, I’m not sure they’ve been released yet, which is strange.

Book Tracker on iOS is fantastic for my needs. Not really any social features, but I don’t need those.