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Re:Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default by xorcist on Friday May 08, 2020 @07:57AM (#23113742)
> Who the message they received is _to_ in the sense of which Signal account it's for, they need to know

And, by extension, the exact real world identity and location of this person.

Signal promises not to store metadata, but definitively have access to it.

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Re:Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default by tialaramex on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:36AM (#23114120)
> And, by extension, the exact real world identity and location of this person.

Not at all? Most likely what's happened here is that you don't understand what "by extension" does in a sentence.

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Re:Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default by xorcist on Saturday May 09, 2020 @04:23AM (#23123089)
Not unlikely. Feel free to explain further.

Hopefully the difference about having access to data and storing data is still clear?

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