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While whatsapp messages are, apparently, e2e encrypted - your phonebook and metadata are slurped up by facebook.

Signal does not have that goal and have been shown by courts documents to not store the metadata.




The Signal app asks for a ton of permissions. Apparently this isn't decentralized either, so how is it different than Facebook? Did they prove it was mathematically hard/impossible for them to see any of the (meta)data? Have they proven that they are a 100% oblivious broker?


The courts not getting any data, as parent just mentioned, is very strong proof for that.


> The courts not getting any data

I don't know what that means.




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