• Sep 17, 2020 |
• Caleb Chen |
• Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal

Privacy flaws in contact discovery have led to a research team being able to enumerate all American Signal users. Enumeration means that using the contact discovery built into the Signal app, researchers were able to perform a large-scale crawling attack and figure out which American phone numbers were attached to a Signal account. The new … Continue reading “Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal”

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