PikaSim on Nostr: Signal encrypts what you say. It cannot encrypt who you are. An NSA director put it ...
Signal encrypts what you say. It cannot encrypt who you are.
An NSA director put it plainly: we kill people based on metadata. Who talks to whom, when, from where.
Its one weak point: your account is a number, and in 150 countries that number is your legal ID.
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2026-07-29 15:30:22 UTCEvent JSON
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