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Re:Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal by dancemethis on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:41PM (#23262944)
Signal fans like to selectively forget that the server-side is proprietary software - therefore, the whole platform can't quite be proven to be reliable.

Essentially, they are not much better than Whatsapp stans.

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Re:Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal by lorenzhs on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:15PM (#23274493)
That’s hilariously wrong, the server source code is at https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server. How can you make such a claim in good faith when it’s so absolutely trivial to refute?
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Re:Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal by ric2b on Friday May 22, 2020 @04:33AM (#23269857)
I don't need the source code for Facebook.com to know what information my open-source browser sends to it. Same concept with Signal, you can read the client source code to know what the protocol sends to the server.
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