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Re:On Privacy versus Freedom by haffenloher on Thursday January 02, 2020 @07:07PM (#21941450)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say, but remote attestation is in fact exactly what they're doing with their contact discovery: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
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Re:On Privacy versus Freedom by sudosysgen on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:58AM (#21943640)
SGX is crypto that is already exploited and broken, it offers no real use in this context.

Oh, and I forgot, you do need to essentially blindly trust Intel.

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Re:On Privacy versus Freedom by tptacek on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:19AM (#21943733)
I don't really care and think this is all a red herring, since every other mainstream messenger doesn't protect this information at all, but instead stores it in plaintext databases.
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Re:On Privacy versus Freedom by sudosysgen on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:17PM (#21947944)
Yes, but it's barely better when reconstructing the social graph is so easy.

Also, Matrix offers a possible alternative.

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Re:On Privacy versus Freedom by tptacek on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:16PM (#21948667)
What makes you believe that?
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