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		pyeri 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, D... Exactly. Especially when considering that Signal was often advertised as that one privacy friendly open-source messaging solution in a world dominated by data-collecting demons like WhatsApp, etc. I don't think even WhatsApp let's such status details leak; notwithstanding whatever they might be doing with the user data on the backend.

sojournerc 6 months ago [–]

I can send a link in Whatsapp to a domain I control and track if clicked. How is that different?

lxgr 6 months ago | [–]

The difference is that your target needs to actually click it. For this, they don't.

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