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

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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

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

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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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