As if you can't get a whole lot of information on most people with just their phone number. The number of people whose Signal ID is built off a burner phone ad no longer traceable back to them is miniscule.
> As if you can't get a whole lot of information on most people with just their phone number. The number of people whose Signal ID is built off a burner phone ad no longer traceable back to them is miniscule.
Yes, but what are you going to do with this information? All you know is how long they've been a signal user and when they last connected.
As if you can't get a whole lot of information on most people with just their phone number. The number of people whose Signal ID is built off a burner phone ad no longer traceable back to them is miniscule.
> As if you can't get a whole lot of information on most people with just their phone number. The number of people whose Signal ID is built off a burner phone ad no longer traceable back to them is miniscule.
Yes, but what are you going to do with this information? All you know is how long they've been a signal user and when they last connected.
You correlate that with the chat logs you've secured from a phone that's been confiscated or subpoenaed.
The metadata itself is just as valuable as the content of the messages.
If you want to prove that criminal A was in correspondence with criminal B, that's how you do it.
As per this comment, they store much more than just the last connection time[1].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39445791
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