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No, they're not. It's a pretty long stretch from IP traffic analysis to "who's talking to whom".



> Not for Amazon I would guess

If you're worried about Signal's hosting provider seeing your device's IP address, use a proxy. Personally, I'm not, because there's no trivial way to go from "Here's some IP traffic" to "this human had a conversation with this human".

> See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...

I also hand BitWarden all my passwords. Therefore, the government has them, right?


My link literally describes viable attacks to deanonymize users.

(But it's broken somehow:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...

)


Court requires "what was said" for evidence as in old telcom CALEA, whereas Signal via sealed sender basically guarantees the "Spirit of CALEA".




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