Comment by fsflover
2 years ago
"Still bad" strongly underestimates the problem. Metadata often is more important than the data as demonstrated in the above examples.
2 years ago
"Still bad" strongly underestimates the problem. Metadata often is more important than the data as demonstrated in the above examples.
But my intention was to point out that actual content wasn't being transmitted and that "only" meta data was gleaned since some people seem to think that chat messages are being scooped up. Other people have rightly pointed out that meta data is bad and why and I didn't feel the need to reiterate that.
It's not the intention that matters but the execution.
I disagree. Thieves can't steal my money from my bank with metadata.
They might, using social engineering and knowing a lot about your connections.
That's a stretch, you can use social engineering to do essentially anything then.
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