• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    If you understand that this information is being leaked, and that’s not part of your threat profile that’s perfectly fine. The problem is that a lot of people don’t seem to understand the implications of Signal harvesting phone numbers, and therefore make bad assumptions regarding the safety of using Signal. It’s pretty clear that a lot of people aren’t conscious about this in this very thread in fact.

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      2 months ago

      yes most people seem oblivious what mass bulk data collection can do.

      and nobody has yet to answer, if there is something to stop Signal from collecting metadata logs of its users and their groups.

      it does not seem people understand this risk.

      either way, nobody produced a reasonable position on this. so presumption is that signal can farm this data and sell/give it out. since best we got is Signal’s responses to US courts which would also be subject to the same conditions if national security type people got involved.

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        2 months ago

        Wire uses Signal protocol and doesn’t harvest phone numbers, so I’m pretty sure we do actually know what the answer is. The fact that Signal made this design choice is very concerning to anybody who understand the implications of doing that.

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          2 months ago

          i don’ disagree with the thesis and i think the best we will get is not answer that tan effectively rebuke the position.

          stupid AI said that server would know who start the connection but not back and forth. connection is static and is reset, so presumably longer convos would involve several timestamps.

          I am not sure if signal would know who the recipient but that’s the logical next conclusion.