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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data

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Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data

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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

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Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.

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I kept having to randomly scramble it until it gave me a number I liked.

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