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(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)

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[–] Laser@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

By how the protocol is structured, it's impossible for the address a downloader sees to know what the packet they forward actually contains, so they're just taking the role of an ISP. Also, they don't know the original source IP.