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CultOfSkaro

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    Comment #23451499

    Actually WhatsApp only uploads numbers. Ironically, Signal is contemplating uploading your full address book to their cloud for “easy recovery”. Which is a nightmare if they follow…

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    Comment #23451392

    Encrypted in transit... But stored plain-text accessible in Telegram’s cloud. They store all your metadata, full contact list, all conversations, all media and attachments, etc. If…

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    Comment #23451346

    Actually Signal is uploading contacts with their first and lastname to the cloud now. Or is planning to do so. Read their blog about that f-ing PIN feature. Its explained there. I …

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    Comment #23451330

    They can both be true. Signal Protocol for message encryption is something different than Signal the official Signal Protocol client. ;) That’s where the difference lies and why th…

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    Comment #23451312

    There’s a counter added to the encrypted portion of metadata of the message. The receiving client increments the counter by +1 if it forwards it. At some point, some client receive…