"... the researchers found 2.3 million active WhatsApp accounts in China, 60 million in Iran, 1.6 million in Myanmar, and five (5) in North Korea at that time. This handful might have been set up by t...
This is one reason why associating phone numbers with accounts in encrypted chat apps is bad practice. Looking at you Signal, Quicksy, and to a lesser extent Wire (supplying a phone numbers is at least optional, but still not wise).
As this WhatSapp leak demonstrates, phone numbers associated with accounts are *metadata*. So until such time as Signal stops collecting them, anyone who claims that it doesn't leak metadata is just plain wrong.
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As this WhatSapp leak demonstrates, phone numbers associated with accounts are *metadata*. So until such time as Signal stops collecting them, anyone who claims that it doesn't leak metadata is just plain wrong.
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