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Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group (blog.paulbiggar.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ooli to c/privacy

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 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 7 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] 5 points 7 months ago

Signal does a decent job just out of the box.