• Chobbes@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Signal push notifications don’t contain any useful plain text data (no content, no information about who sent you a message). AFAIK the only thing you would be leaking is that you received a message on signal, and frankly that metadata is probably going to be leaked to the US government regardless of your use of push notifications.

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      10 months ago

      it’s not the content in the noti, it’s where your phone was connected when it received it

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      10 months ago

      frankly that metadata is probably going to be leaked to the US government regardless of your use of push notifications.

      How?

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        10 months ago

        Because your ISP and cell phone provider can tell you’re connecting to signal.

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          10 months ago

          They can tell you connect to AWS when the Signal app fetches messages after a notification, they need to be able to peek into Amazon’s servers to see you’re connecting specifically to Signal