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"of course" thank you, yes this is really very obvious. As if Signal can't see whom I'm talking to if they wanted to. Yes, their marketing material says as much
by lucgommans 5y ago
"of course" thank you, yes this is really very obvious. As if Signal can't see whom I'm talking to if they wanted to. Yes, their marketing material says as much (and they genuinely try to make it hard for themselves), but you're not the kind of person who swallows those blog posts without thinking of the ways you would attack it. In both cases we trust the server not to snoop on our metadata.
- tptacek 5y agoNo, we do not trust Wire to do that, and your evidence for that is that the service not only uses but requires a serverside SQL database of this information in order to function. I'm being terse because I'm not super interested in relitigating this on this thread. Signal and Wire have different use cases. Wire isn't evil, it's just not the same product Signal is. There are people closer to Signal's engineering who can pick up the particulars if they think it's important to shoot down anything anybody else said here.