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EinatYahav@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year 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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EinatYahav@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year 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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    Doesn’t really matter with them being non unique. Multiple people can have the same username, there’s a randomly generated number that goes with it

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      Let’s make a compact to all use “guillotinetherich”

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        A pact maybe?

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          maybe Wogi wants to check his makeup in the mirror while he’s out at guillotine-the-rich rallies.

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