• psmgx@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Timing attacks work, but if they’re running those then they have a pretty good idea as to both sides of the convo.

    Put another way, if they’ve got to that point your opsec has already failed.

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      2 months ago

      Well without that they would’ve needed probably months correlating things like “goes to bed at X o clock” with those chat logs. For a whole neighbourhood to then get a search warrant with that. Which of course is not above the capabilities of a state actor but depending on how big a fish he was they might not have bothered spending the resources. Being able to pin-point a house in maybe a day when all you have is a municipality is a whole different ballpark.