misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoWhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contactswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squaremarkstos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 hours agoThey cannot see phone numbers of contacts, no.
minus-squarelemmeBe@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoOf course not. And the often repeated “they use Signal protocol” means diddly squat because the code is closed source. They took Signal protocol at some point, forked it and did good knows what with it since experts cannot review it. 🙄
They cannot see phone numbers of contacts, no.
Is the code open ?
Of course not. And the often repeated “they use Signal protocol” means diddly squat because the code is closed source. They took Signal protocol at some point, forked it and did good knows what with it since experts cannot review it. 🙄