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Signal knows who you’re talking to – Sane Security Guy (sanesecurityguy.com)
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[–] gtr@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How does signal match your contacts based on their phone number then?

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

by having you trust intel instead of themselves: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

[–] gtr@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Oh but that's still better than I expected.

[–] staircase@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Hence "vague memory". I don't know.