EinatYahav@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoSignal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Datatheintercept.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1246arrow-down18cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.worldsignal@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoThey don’t track username history and don’t have a server side list of plaintext usernames, and others can’t find your phone number from the username alone. That makes it harder to confirm which account is yours.
They don’t track username history and don’t have a server side list of plaintext usernames, and others can’t find your phone number from the username alone. That makes it harder to confirm which account is yours.