I mean, whether or not it's a "privacy app" depends on how it's used, no? It's a very private messaging app.
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Also very visible that you're using it for anyone sniffing the backbone upstream. OTR at least works w/in other services.
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I guess. But the more normies use Signal the less its visibility matters.
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https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-number-to-everyone-in-your-contacts/ … there are other privacy issues.
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This blog post is simply wrong. Signal does not do this. Happy to walk you through the code if you disagree.
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happy to read the code, which repo and files? What is the server config?
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Server: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/signal-server … Clients: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/signal-android …https://github.com/WhisperSystems/signal-ios …
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It isn't even intuitively possible. If Alice's # is sent to Bob at install, how would Bob know what contact card to put the # in?
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so the numbers are just stored in the Postgres?
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Huh? The article you are sharing around claims that Signal sends your phone number to people in your contacts that don't have it.
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That is obviously not true, either intuitively or in the code.
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ok, ask
@jwz for a correction (his article), but back to the Signal server code base :)0 replies 0 retweets 3 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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