Comment by cowlevel
4 days ago
Is this accounting for the fact that they kill people based on metadata? More technically complex and unreliable protocols such as SimpleX attempt to also protect the metadata.
4 days ago
Is this accounting for the fact that they kill people based on metadata? More technically complex and unreliable protocols such as SimpleX attempt to also protect the metadata.
Is what accounting for that? If you're worried about metadata leaks, you shouldn't be using email, full stop.
By "metadata" GP is presumably talking, as I was, about Signal uploading most users' contact lists to the server with weak protection.
The point is that if the comparison point is PGP-encrypted email, which has no protection for any metadata and passes it on the wire in the clear, raising concerns about Signal’s metadata protections makes no sense.
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