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Phone numbers are metadata, and the fact that you don't even understand this shows that you have no business making uninformed comments on this subject. Metadata is understood to be data that's associated with messages being sent, but isn't the content of the messages themselves.
One has to be an incredibly gullible individual to actually believe this. You have no way to audit the server, and security cannot be based on trust. If a company has a way to store and use the information it collects it has to be assumed that it is doing so. Signal is very obviously in a position to do this. Once the phone number is collected, it's associated with your account. Any time you send a message through signal to another account that's a connection in the graph of your social network.
Anybody with a functioning brain can understand that this graph is highly valuable to intelligence agencies in the US. If they have a person of interest and they know their identity, they can trivially use the metadata collected by Signal to see whom this person wants to have private conversations with.
Ignorant people such as yourself confidently speaking on subjects they don't understand present a public danger to society.
That's incorrect. Metadata is literally "data about the data". There is not data associated with the phone number (data). The fact that you don't even understand this shows that you have no business making uninformed comments on this subject.
No, one just needs a rudimentary understanding of how encryption works. Actually looking at the subpoenas sent from Signal is helpful, though.
Anybody who actually pays attention can see that there is no graph. A graph has interconnected points. There are no connections in Signal.
Your entire argument is based on wild hypotheticals and conspiracy theories and you have zero evidence of anything nefarious, or you would have provided it already.
Yes, the phone number is data about the user sending the message. Let me know if you need me to use smaller words to explain this to you.
This has nothing to do with encryption. The phone number is being handed over by the user to the server. You're making it very clear that have absolutely no clue regarding the subject you're attempting to debate here.
Signal server has to keep a graph of connections between the accounts in order to route messages between them. The messages are not delivered peer to peer.
No, my entire argument is based on basic security practices that anybody who's ever dealt with security would understand. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
No it isn't. If someone gets information associated with that phone number, they get it from somewhere else, not Signal. Let me know if you need me to use smaller words to explain this to you.
No it doesn't. You're making it very clear that have absolutely no clue regarding the subject you're attempting to debate here.
No it isn't. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
Unless you're in a position to audit what the Signal server does with that data, which you're not, then you're just spewing nonsense here. You do not know what the server does with the information it collects.
You are in no position to make that claim because you do not know what the server is doing with that data. The fact that you keep repeating this nonsense over and over isn't going to make it true baby Goebbels.
The fact that you don't understand that security isn't based on trust, clearly shows who's actually embarrassing themselves.
I don't have to be. Lots of people, public and private, who are far more knowledgeable than me, already have. You're assuming they're doing something nefarious but you have zero evidence to back that up. You're just spewing nonsense here. The fact that you keep repeating this nonsense over and over isn't going to make it true baby Goebbels.
The fact that you don't understand there is no trust, clearly shows who's actually embarrassing themselves.
Literally nobody outside Whisper has access to the server, and therefore nobody outside Whisper knows what the server does. The fact that you don't understand this basic fact is frankly embarrassing.
As I've repeatedly explained to you in this thread, security cannot be based on trust. If data is available to an attacker then the system has to be assumed to be compromised. If you understood first thing about security you'd understand that this is a fundamental point.
The fact that you just keep regurgitating back what I write to you shows that you have all the intellectual capacity of a chat bot.