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They don't have to do that because accounts are associated one-to-one with phone numbers.


I don't understand your comment.


Signal doesn't need traffic analysis because it knows the phone numbers of who is communicating.


Traffic analysis isn’t just to identify the peers but also to find patterns in communication (they are telling each other good morning and good night every day, they communicated before a terrorist attack, …)




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