Man I don’t even have the time to break down all these very clearly wrong insinuations. There’s no reason to believe Signal collects metadata, and every reason to believe they don’t. They’ve been served subpoenas and they shared them, as well as their responses, publicly, and the only thing they included was when the last time the user connected to their server.
I’ll give you a €10 gift-card to whatever popular online store you want. I ask for nothing in return. Absolutely no stipulations. The only thing is that you have to give me your credit card number and the expiration and the numbers on the back. I’ll just verify it’s real with a €1 charge (and then return the €1). That’s it. Not gonna do anything with the data. In fact, I’ll delete the data afterwards. Want €10?
Security cannot be based on trust. Period. If an actor is in a position to collect data then it must be assumed that they do so. You either do not understand the subject you’re opining on, or you’re intentionally spreading misinformation here.
It is not based on trust. It’s called “zero knowledge encryption” for a reason. You don’t have to trust them, because you give them nothing to trust them with.
Except that it is based on trust because you have to use your phone number to create the account, and you have to trust the company operating the server in regards on how that information is used. What part of this are you struggling to understand specifically?
The part that this is a false statement that you keep repeating. The phone number is associated with your account, that’s why it’s required to make the account.
The phone number is not associated with your account, it IS your account. In order for there to be metadata, there would have to be other data associated with it, which we’ve already established that there is not.
Your phone number is an identifying piece of information about the person who is sending and receiving messages. That’s what metadata is. The content of the message is the data, the identifying information is metadata. Maybe spend a bit of time actually learning about the subject instead of trolling here.
@yogthos@Ulrich It is also besides the point because whether he wants to call it metadata or not, Signal still has that information.
Signal might well share every subpoena they can. However, NSLs can come with gag orders. Even if they wanted to tell you what was going on, they couldn’t.
Your phone number is an identifying piece of information about the person who is sending and receiving messages. That’s what metadata is.
It’s not. And I’m tired of repeating myself.
The content of the message is the data, the identifying information is metadata
Once again, no one has access to the content of the messages. Ergo, there is no metadata. Maybe spend a bit of time actually learning about the subject instead of trolling here.
Man I don’t even have the time to break down all these very clearly wrong insinuations. There’s no reason to believe Signal collects metadata, and every reason to believe they don’t. They’ve been served subpoenas and they shared them, as well as their responses, publicly, and the only thing they included was when the last time the user connected to their server.
I’ll give you a €10 gift-card to whatever popular online store you want. I ask for nothing in return. Absolutely no stipulations. The only thing is that you have to give me your credit card number and the expiration and the numbers on the back. I’ll just verify it’s real with a €1 charge (and then return the €1). That’s it. Not gonna do anything with the data. In fact, I’ll delete the data afterwards. Want €10?
Security cannot be based on trust. Period. If an actor is in a position to collect data then it must be assumed that they do so. You either do not understand the subject you’re opining on, or you’re intentionally spreading misinformation here.
It is not based on trust. It’s called “zero knowledge encryption” for a reason. You don’t have to trust them, because you give them nothing to trust them with.
Except that it is based on trust because you have to use your phone number to create the account, and you have to trust the company operating the server in regards on how that information is used. What part of this are you struggling to understand specifically?
What part of “there is zero data associated with your phone number” are you struggling to understand, specifically?
The part that this is a false statement that you keep repeating. The phone number is associated with your account, that’s why it’s required to make the account.
The phone number is not associated with your account, it IS your account. In order for there to be metadata, there would have to be other data associated with it, which we’ve already established that there is not.
Your phone number is an identifying piece of information about the person who is sending and receiving messages. That’s what metadata is. The content of the message is the data, the identifying information is metadata. Maybe spend a bit of time actually learning about the subject instead of trolling here.
@yogthos @Ulrich It is also besides the point because whether he wants to call it metadata or not, Signal still has that information.
Signal might well share every subpoena they can. However, NSLs can come with gag orders. Even if they wanted to tell you what was going on, they couldn’t.
It’s not. And I’m tired of repeating myself.
Once again, no one has access to the content of the messages. Ergo, there is no metadata. Maybe spend a bit of time actually learning about the subject instead of trolling here.