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0 pointswidforss9y ago0 comments

But one should never consider oneself secure from targeted attacks. What Signal et. al. protects from is dragnet surveillance, which Apple can perform remotely with iMessage without having to install an exploit on every iOS device. They do not have that opportunity with Signal.

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acqq9y ago

> What Signal et. al. protects from is dragnet surveillance

Can it be claimed if

- the user has to log in with his phone number to Signal servers in order to communicate

- no user can use any other but Signal servers, which are hardcoded in the apps?

It seems that it's perfectly designed to at least collect the metadata and the owners of it don't want to let you change these rules.

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