Wrong. Signal servers don’t know of group members.
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namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 10 months agoBut they must still have your phone number and associate it with your username. So it would still be easy for a government organization to force Signal to give up the identities of all people who join a group.
ouch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 10 months ago
Really? That’s interesting. But the group membership list must be persisted somewhere, no? Otherwise, you wouldn’t know where to send and receive messages. So where is it persisted then?
ouch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
teolan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They can’t get your username from your phone number (but they can b’get your phone number from your username)