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0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117
So if you send a picture to a Signal user, it's retrieved via cloudflare, and cached in a data center near that user; now you can look up the cache status and find the data center used. I'd say "deanonymization" is stretching it, unless the user is in the middle of nowhere (no other users near the data center). But interesting writeup anyway.
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> cached in a data center near that user

Not necessarily. Cloudflare is very upfront that they do not cache everything, and the time things are cached can vary greatly.

The kid keeps talking about "deanonymization" and he has no idea what the term actually means.

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