Comment by saurik

I mean, if WhatsApp said this about the privacy of messages, Signal would be running billboard ads about how they don't care about privacy and look at how much better Signal is, right? This is the company that goes out of their way to pile on advanced encryption and insists on using dangerous secure enclaves to get this kind of thing right... until they are asked the hide phone numbers, at which point they are selling people a false bill of goods that WILL confuse someone into giving their phone number to someone who they really shouldn't have. It isn't as if it is somehow impossible to hide anyone's number at the protocol level: hell... even Snapchat does this, right?