Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app

• Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seriously. Who wants to know when people are talking to them? GO AWAY, PEOPLE. GOSH.

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• nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly for most people this is a crazy level of paranoia. The US government can know the metadata of my friends birthday party organization group.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But why?

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    • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly I don’t care if the government knows who’s all going to the party. Someone’s gonna post pictures of it anyhow. My garbage data is just more stuff for them to sort through.

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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You say that, but what if one of them had a friend who is a communist? Could make for some awkward conversation with the authorities at some undisclosed location in the future.

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I realize now that I misunderstood the objection, I thought you were saying that using signal was an unreasonable level of paranoia, but I can totally see why turning off notifications seems that way.

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    • jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it’s a significant inconvenience to disable those notifications over the very unlikely possibility that some bad actor will hoover that data up, much less do something nefarious with it.

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah, fair enough.

        I realize now that I misunderstood the objection, I thought you were saying that using signal was an unreasonable level of paranoia, but I can totally see why turning off notifications seems that way.

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• Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • iAmNotorious@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    macrumors.com/…/apple-governments-surveil-push-no…

    The US government is forcing Google and Apple to share push notification data with them. Even if the content is not sent, the metadata alone can let them know who you are talking to and when using metadata correlation.

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    • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Signal push notifications don’t contain any useful plain text data. AFAIK the only thing you would be leaking is that you received a message on signal, and frankly that metadata is probably going to be leaked to the US government regardless of your use of push notifications.

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      • Still@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it’s not the content in the noti, it’s where your phone was connected when it received it

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