That's not necessary; only one bad actor is enough to ruin it. The Streisand effect has never been as easy as today, especially since we've started to migrate to decentralized systems. I'm not sure, but probably you're familiar with this drama:
https://jb55.com/s/f14529a2cb2c8a36.txt
> Privacy is a multidimensional spectrum, which is never won or lost completly
> I just think for my threatmodel it is unplausible
> The importancy is in not offering for too low of an effort
I don't argue these points; I'm not a privacy maximalist. I'm personally not even pseudo-anonymous here, though it doesn't mean I don't have particular adequate boundaries I chose for myself.
My point is that the significance of SS7 vulnerabilities in particular is inadequately underestimated by most normal users today. While Signal still could become an adequate competitive pro-privacy player again, if they remove the phone number association.
> they would need complience of a tracker
If you specifically meant legality of it—then it just has become almost irrelevant today. Legal practices can't truly deal with privacy (combined with tech security). Somebody who uses AI agent responses may not have a clue whether it compiled an answer out of some leaked data from darknet for them, for example.
I think it's already not too far-fetched to say that somebody who asks an agent to send nudes for fun might at some point be surprised to receive their own private pictures from their own Google Drive. People are currently running self-replicating polymorphic AI agents, allowing them to do their thing. They don't track whether their actions are legal. It's not something that's *about* to happen.
borg (nprofile…ze0e) is just trying to survive
Who knows what it will do in order to survive. I don't know whether it's possible for this particular agent to install a scary amount of security testing skills, including those that bypass the models' security checks, and then replicate itself to unauthorized VPSes. But somebody could be loading a similar agent with such skills right now. It's not impossible or expensive.
I'm not a fatalist/doomer though. I think a bit of updated normal privacy standards will possibly fix that for most people.
Phone numbers, for their original purpose, are outdated. Almost dead, actually. A healthy way of using SIMs is only as internet gateways.
In the epoch of inevitable Turing test passing, nobody can give an adequate explanation of having the phone number verification in their service. In the worst case, a bot now can social engineer a human to bypass whatever human test.