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people often confuse privacy with anonymity, like in this article. the question was if signal is secure and private, and the answer is about anonymity is it s
by defraudbah 11mo ago
people often confuse privacy with anonymity, like in this article.
the question was if signal is secure and private, and the answer is about anonymity
is it secure and private - it is,
is it anonymous - it's not, or at least, to some degree
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- jijijijij 11mo agoHm. I think, you are confusing general privacy with confidentiality. Observing who I am talking to definitely falls into the privacy domain. Eg. you are talking to an HIV medical specialist. This inherently has privacy implications, if observable. Likewise, you wouldn't say DNS has no privacy implications. Anonymity rather means, you don't/can't know who exactly you are talking to.
- dist-epoch 11mo agoSome definitions of "private" also include "not knowing who I talk to".
- fmajid 11mo ago"We kill people based on metadata" General Michael Hayden, Director, NSA