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How would they be able to do that? Can you quote where in the article you got that and how that would happen? "Notably, things we don't have stored include an
by segmondy 10y ago
How would they be able to do that? Can you quote where in the article you got that and how that would happen?
"Notably, things we don't have stored include anything about a user's contacts (such as the contacts themselves, a hash of the contacts, any other derivative contact information), anything about a user's groups (such as how many groups a user is in, which groups a user is in, the membership lists of a user's groups), or any records of who a user has been communicating with."
If they don't store the contacts, or even a hash of the contact, how can you figure out who was talking to who?
- georgecmu 10y agoYes, but zeveb makes the following points: 1. "the contacts, or even a hash of the contact" are being not stored by choice rather than by necessity. 2. If OWS chose to start storing these metadata in the future, they could. 3. A protocol where the metadata could not be stored intrinsically would be preferable.
- problems 10y ago> If they don't store the contacts, or even a hash of the contact, how can you figure out who was talking to who? Think of it like email. The body is encrypted, the subject is encrypted, any attachments are encrypted, but in order for them to route the message to the correct destination every message you send still has a "To:" field - their server still decides who to send the notification to. They don't need to read the contacts or anything of the sort - they just read the "To:" field.