• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The NSA already has your social map from Apple, Google, Facebook/whatsapp, plus a hundred other sources you’ve given access to your contacts in the past decade.

    Even if you’ve never used any of those, or given any app access to your contacts, 99% of your contacts have.

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      2 days ago

      Data is about as good as it is current though and many people are reducing their exposure to these parasites

      A person can now pretty easily go without logging into any of these apps with a few adjustments.

      Hence why signal relationship maps will be even more valuable going forward. Hence my theory about signal…

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        3 hours ago

        I’m not getting you.

        There’s correspondence, there’s metadata, and there’s phone-ID relationship.

        Signal still protects #1 and #2 better than #3. And the way it works, infrastructure load is much bigger than for most other messaging platforms. So it makes total sense they limit registration somehow .

        I’m not sure I remember by now what I’ve read about Signal protocol, but I think the fact of who messages whom they don’t have, so it’s not just trust.

        ~~Anyway, if you’ve read about 90s’ mixmaster servers for mail, while Signal developers don’t approve of alternative clients, there are libraries and it’s possible to make some kind of a mixmaster bot. ~~

        I’ve left this, because it’s funny as a good illustration of why they don’t want alternative clients, among other things - because I’ve described a voluntary MITM.