by spamalot159 on 1/7/22, 6:03 AM with 25 comments
by prmoustache on 1/7/22, 11:54 AM
Example: upload a few minutes long video to a whatsapp contact, depending on your phone connection it can take up to a few minutes. Then forward it to other contacts or group and it is done instantaneously. For the videos and images to be sent and retrieved instantaneously by my contacts when forwarded while I am using a crappy connection it means they are retrieved from some whatsapp servers which means there is at least some kind of man in the middle proxy-cache stuff involved.
I certainly cannot do the same on other apps I have used doing e2e encryption. On deltachat, atox, jami I have to send back again the data. While inconvenient when using a bad connection I am willing to get the tradeoff to have no mitm on any server. Anyone can share if there is a similar forwarding function on Signal?
by axiosgunnar on 1/7/22, 10:46 AM
On a tangential note, I find it super cringeworthy how quickly people fell for Facebook‘s rebranding and stopped calling it Facebook.
For me it’s Facebook with all it‘s negative connotations, not Meta.
by rex_lupi on 1/7/22, 7:39 AM
by nvartolomei on 1/7/22, 9:19 AM
There are operators recycling numbers after less than a year of inactivity/zero balance on pre paid SIMs.
by ThePowerOfFuet on 1/8/22, 9:47 PM
OP followed up with:
>I actually realized what happened and I didn't want to keep it up and misinform other users or cause more damage to Google or Whatsapp.
>So what happened is I actually used a temporary phone given to me by a repair service prior to buying this phone, due to mine being repaired by said service. The service was handing that phone to anyone who needed one while their phone was in service, like I did and thus was used by dozens of people in the past years, and so had thousands of photos on it. When I used it, whatsapp backed all that data into my drive. So... When I bought a new phone, and restored the backup to it, what essentially happened was all that data from the service phone was transfered onto the new one. That's how I ended up with loads of random people's data.
>So in fact the fault was the fact that the service wasn't deleting data on the phone before handing it over to other clients.
by Demcox on 1/7/22, 9:47 AM
by rosndo on 1/7/22, 1:55 PM