Dr. Hax on Nostr: Like I said, not everything is encrypted. Like I said, the concern is metadata. You ...

Like I said, not everything is encrypted.
Like I said, the concern is metadata.

You don't even need to look at the code to confirm this. If Signal's servers didn't have access to plain text phone numbers, they wouldn't be able to let anyone look up people by phone number. They wouldn't be able to send out SMSes to people when they lose their phone. And so on.

You can say you trust Signal, Twilio, AWS and the rest of their partners to keep this safe.
You can say that you don't care if metadata leaks.

But please don't decieve people into thinking these organizations do not have access to everyone's phone numbers or pull a strawman argument about Signal being perfect just because there are even worse options (like SMS).