What does “still could be” mean here?
Hello. I have found the following sentence and cannot understand “still could be”. Please help me out. Thanks.
Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be.
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Here is the full context: What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed tracery of its users’ friendships and social lives. Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through. Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be.
- Here is the full context: What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed tracery of its users’ friendships and social lives.
- Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through.
- Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be.
- Paraphrase: Even if an investigator / hacker / snooper could not read the content of the messages, the information about the sender and receiver could be enormously valuable, and still could be very revealing.
- It implies that if a hacker gets access to historical metadata (not the content) of messages, they could exploit this information to do mischief..
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Here is the full context:
What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed tracery of its users’ friendships and social lives. Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through. Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who
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