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Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 years ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] noodlejetski@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

luckily, from the warrants they've received in the past we know that they don't store metadata, and the only information about the requested numbers that they've been able to provide to the court were the date of registering an account and the last time they were online, both in Unix epoch format: https://signal.org/bigbrother/

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

You have to keep the bigger context in mind here. Even if Signal only tracks your phone number, it can be easily correlated with other data that's associated with you that's aggregated from your online footprint.

[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

This only tells us what they do by default and without gag-order. They could still be forced to log specific users and are barred from telling us by legal request.

Furthermore, it is known from Telegram disclosures that the FBI has been approaching staff from messenger companies with the offer of quite a lot of money to act as moles inside these companies.

As long as Signal is a centralized service with servers in the US, neither problem can be solved and that makes Signal inherently unsafe to use.