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• birdcat@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  basically.

  even minimal metadata for example from signal contains

  Message dates and times

  Message senders and recipients (via phone number identifiers)

  From these 2 pieces of information, its possible to build social graphs: who talked to who, and when they did it. Also, who’s in a group chat with who else.

  github.com/dessalines/essays/…/why_not_signal.md#…

  (worth to read in full)

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• Cinner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  justsecurity.org/…/michael-hayden-kill-people-bas…

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