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ooli@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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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ooli@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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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    Are you sure code for server is open source? I thought only the client was.

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      https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

      Everything is completely open under AGPL 3.0, really neat.

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        Worth pointing out that a git repo doesn’t mean that’s what they’re running on the server

        I’m not saying don’t trust Signal, but it’s worth remembering that you are trusting them

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      I think you are confused between telegram and signal.

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