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Signal knows who you’re talking to – Sane Security Guy (sanesecurityguy.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] staircase@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My vague memory is that Signal doesn't keep that information, so it couldn't be subpeona'd, indeed they've been asked for it before and declined to share.

BUT IT'S MOOT IF YOUR MESSAGES ARE VIEWED by sender or receiver ON ANDROID, WINDOWS OR IOS. Those operating systems can just view everything you type regardless.

[–] gtr@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How does signal match your contacts based on their phone number then?

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

by having you trust intel instead of themselves: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

[–] gtr@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Oh but that's still better than I expected.

[–] staircase@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Hence "vague memory". I don't know.