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		daneel_w on Aug 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? Every Signal account is represented by the phone number the user provided in order to receive their SMS activation code, and messages are not sent directly between users' clients/apps but relayed through Signal's systems.

growse on Aug 26, 2024 [–]

Your original assertion "signal knows who is talking to whom" does not follow from "Signal relays the data".

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