When someone sends a message to another WhatsApp user, their device creates a different session key for each device the receiver is using, thus telling the sender how many devices the receiver is using.
So like any other service using the Signal protocol, or am I wrong?
I knew my brother got a new phone because signal told me their usual device had changed.
What are some good reasons for this? My initial thought is that it’s intrusive and violates a user’s privacy.
Well, I knew my brother was getting a new phone soon anyways so getting notified his device changed wasn’t a surprise. Otherwise, getting notified hia device changed without that knowledge may have triggered me to contact him elsewhere to ask if he did. Signal is mostly going to be conversations between close/trusted individuals. It doesn’t tell you what they changed to, the message basically tells you that if this person didn’t legitimately change devices then it might be a bad actor.
In other news, water is wet. I only see FUD here.
Water is actually not wet. It only makes other materials/objects wet. Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid. So if you say something is wet we mean the liquid is sticking to the surface of the object
Where is the good old water is not wet bot from reddit times when we need him.
Be the change you want to see!
Sadly the people here dont seem to know this copy pasta. I got downvotes.
You forgot either quotes around the whole thing, a reference, or “/s”
Thats not how copy pastas work
Water sticks to itself, that’s why we have surface tension, so I’d say water is indeed wet.
Yes, but what about wet ice?
That’s wet Water as well.
Yes true. Ice is an non liquid object. So if you have a thin layer of still liquid water on the ice then the Ice is wet.
Jokes on you, I don’t
This is a security feature to let you know that the sender may be an imposter, right? Like matrix’s verified sessions, if my friend gets a new phone or pc it’s unverified and I have to verify the new session through another means, like in person or phone.
