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A lean newsroom’s blueprint for gathering secure tips
By Halle Stockton
Posted onHow we wired together Signal, Twilio, and a spare cell phone to create a newsroom number for sources who need privacy.
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Shields Up: Using Signal Without Giving Your Phone Number
By Martin Shelton
Posted onEncrypted messaging apps like Signal, as well as WhatsApp and Viber, use your phone number as your main username. This means that if I want to chat with someone on these apps, I have to give them my phone number. But we may have many reasons—both practical and principled—not to share our number with someone. These digits are personal.