Re:‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Contact Data
by StavrosK on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:50PM
(#15151405)
No, the server just says "I know these email addresses starting with 'foo': [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]". If your friend's email address is in there, you know they have Signal.
The hashing is so people can't easily get a list of all the phone numbers, which is easy to work around, but, then again, they could just hammer the endpoint querying for all the various numbers anyway.
The hashing is so people can't easily get a list of all the phone numbers, which is easy to work around, but, then again, they could just hammer the endpoint querying for all the various numbers anyway.