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Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group (blog.paulbiggar.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is why metadata matters so much. Plenty of "end-to-end encrypted" apps only handle the content of messages, but know on the server side what people are in what places. Or even keep a historical record of who joined and left. Or just don't bother encrypting...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is functionally no way to hide this kind of information from a state actor short of some onion routing scheme mesh networking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Signal does a decent job just out of the box.