CultOfSkaro

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   by CultOfSkaro 6y ago

   Actually WhatsApp only uploads numbers. Ironically, Signal is contemplating uploading your full address book to their cloud for “easy recovery”. Which is a nightmare if they follow through with it.
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   by CultOfSkaro 6y ago

   Encrypted in transit... But stored plain-text accessible in Telegram’s cloud. They store all your metadata, full contact list, all conversations, all media and attachments, etc. If you value your privacy, Telegram is the absolute worst and
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   by CultOfSkaro 6y ago

   Actually Signal is uploading contacts with their first and lastname to the cloud now. Or is planning to do so. Read their blog about that f-ing PIN feature. Its explained there. I hope they don’t go through with it, I absolutely do not wish
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   by CultOfSkaro 6y ago

   They can both be true. Signal Protocol for message encryption is something different than Signal the official Signal Protocol client. ;) That’s where the difference lies and why the statement can be true: WhatsApp uses Signal Protocol for i
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   by CultOfSkaro 6y ago

   There’s a counter added to the encrypted portion of metadata of the message. The receiving client increments the counter by +1 if it forwards it. At some point, some client receives a message that has the maximum amount of forwards and thus