Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoApple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage appwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square298fedilinkarrow-up1597arrow-down142cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1555arrow-down1external-linkApple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage appwww.theverge.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square298fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
minus-squarenotenoughbutter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months ago frankly that metadata is probably going to be leaked to the US government regardless of your use of push notifications. How?
minus-squareChobbes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoBecause your ISP and cell phone provider can tell you’re connecting to signal.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThey 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
How?
Because your ISP and cell phone provider can tell you’re connecting to signal.
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