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“That feature is not well advertised, and it’s interesting that someone could disclose your location if they’re your contact,” Wells said. “That’s kind of odd.”
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The vulnerability also has limitations. The method isn’t 100% reliable; at one point, Wells called an associate in Pennsylvania as an experiment, and the associated DNS server that responded was 400 miles away in Toronto.
“It’s very coarse,” Wells admitted.
The researcher also wasn’t able to determine a person’s specific address, for example. But when a callee’s phone connected to certain servers, he was able to see clearly what city they were in and track their daily movements.
“We’re not cracking Signal’s encryption or saying don’t use Signal. The sky isn’t falling,” he said. “But for a certain subset of people, this is going to be a problem.”
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