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Written by Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 on 2024-11-11 at 15:42

Sorry Signal and WhatsApp, you're not getting full access to my contacts. Stop begging. Be grateful you have access to a dummy contact.

Both apps now check for the new #iOS18 authorization status "limited" and complain if the user authorizes access to some contacts only.

[#]Privacy #infosec #Security #privacymatters #iOS

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Written by Michael Brandtner on 2024-11-11 at 16:29

@mysk I get it with WhatsApp, but why Signal?

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Written by Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 on 2024-11-11 at 16:36

@MBrandtner They're going after contacts to expand their user base. There's no way to stop this pop-up. If you dismiss it, it shows up later. It is intrusive but made sense when phone numbers were the only way to discover and add new contacts. Now they support IDs. So no idea why they insist on begging for full access to contacts. Pretty weird for a privacy chat app.

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Written by Michael Brandtner on 2024-11-11 at 17:27

@mysk What do you mean with "They're going after contacts"? Your contact details are at no point known to the Signal server.

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Written by Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 on 2024-11-11 at 17:51

@MBrandtner I mean that they're desperate to send the hashes to their servers so they match the hashes and then notify users when a contact joins Signal. They only need the hashes of phone numbers in your address book. This practice clearly increases the number of Signal users. It's fine, but allowing users to choose to opt out isn't.

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