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Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims: this unofficial audit on the #Converso app looks like a book of horrors…!
(poliverso.org)
But wait – it gets much, much worse
As I was finishing up the above post, I noticed something a little strange in the code – something I'd glossed over earlier. There are a ton of references to what looks to be functions related to Google's #Firestore database.
It's not about metadata exchange, but metadata exposure.
Two of those platforms use self-hosted node servers. Behind a VPN with multiple customers, this is virtually untraceable. And certainly far less easily traced than by giving away your cell phone number to a company.