This seems like a pretty big leap from true username sign-in, and I really like Telegram.
'Anonymous login' seems extremely misleading in this case.
There's a reason that a 2017 study called Telegram the [security blanket of the chat world](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319622415_The_Secur...).
If signal wants to be seen as better; third party clients are a huge step.. Failing that: provably P2P messaging.
As it stands it's only really "better" on paper, you still have to trust the network provider.
That’s a really weird way to say: aggressively discouraged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469007
https://techjaja.com/whatsapp-shuts-down-users-of-3rd-party-...
Signal had a bug where it sent private photos to random contacts, so it seems like that can't possibly be called safe either, if they're making junior level UI state mistakes like that (it's also not E2E encryption if the app switches one of the ends without your consent).
Are you saying it's impossible to do anonymously, or just that it's not anonymous by default?
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My gripe is that how awkward the whole process is, especially the fact that you're locked into using Metamask to be able to transfer TON into their network via bridge.
I wonder if relatively small number of people who are able (and willing to) jump through all these hoops will stand out like a sore thumb and this in turn would actually reduce anonymity.
Do you think it's accurate to call it 'anonymous' when it's not in 99.99% of cases?
What nation states even have the capacity to collect (a lot of) metadata on all connections that happen anywhere on earth? They'd need to see you connecting to the VPN (easy), and they'd need to see the VPN server connecting to the mining pool server (hard unless you have access to a lot of backbones), and then correlate that data. Add additional VPN servers to make it harder as you wish.
I'm pretty sure we could narrow it down to a handful of states having the ability to get data from a lot of the web, so unless your beef is with one of them, you're pretty secure.