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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 · 9 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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still waiting for this to roll out on ios…
edit: nevermind, it updated
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  I have this for some time now on iOS
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    you have the beta?
    the beta is closed now…
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      I dont. I got it via normal update. The 7.1 has been installed recently on my iPhone

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