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Cant server isnt foss they could be doing anything with metadata.

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It is, but open source servers never matter anyways

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I thought it was open source.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

This doesnโ€™t prevent them from running different software or logging requests, but we have unsealed court orders, which is better than most other services that could receive them.

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Sorry ur right. But yeah as u said they could be running anything. Im confident in the fact they cant read messages just not so confident they arent collecting metadata capable of building a social graph. Sealed sender doesnt do much good when u have a centralised server.

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The server is Foss. However, that means nothing as you still be using it. Best to not trust it and use ee2e which is what Signal does.

Signal is really a fancy version of SMS and MMS. It does require a phone number but contacts donโ€™t need that you contact you. There are better options from a anonymity perspective but they arenโ€™t as user friendly and popular.

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