• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    2 days ago

    Data is about as good as it is current though and many people are reducing their exposure to these parasites

    A person can now pretty easily go without logging into any of these apps with a few adjustments.

    Hence why signal relationship maps will be even more valuable going forward. Hence my theory about signal…

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      7 hours ago

      I’m not getting you.

      There’s correspondence, there’s metadata, and there’s phone-ID relationship.

      Signal still protects #1 and #2 better than #3. And the way it works, infrastructure load is much bigger than for most other messaging platforms. So it makes total sense they limit registration somehow .

      I’m not sure I remember by now what I’ve read about Signal protocol, but I think the fact of who messages whom they don’t have, so it’s not just trust.

      ~~Anyway, if you’ve read about 90s’ mixmaster servers for mail, while Signal developers don’t approve of alternative clients, there are libraries and it’s possible to make some kind of a mixmaster bot. ~~

      I’ve left this, because it’s funny as a good illustration of why they don’t want alternative clients, among other things - because I’ve described a voluntary MITM.