Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.
  • olicvb@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    guessing it would mean that people wont be using the same username as they do on every other account. So if doodlebop69 can’t be traced from signal they could go to google and find the same doodlebop69 to grab their information from

    • akilou@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      8 months ago

      But doodlebug69 needs to accept a message from you before you can see their profile info.

      • Baguette@lemmy.ml
        4·
        8 months ago

        They have the username already, they don’t need to see their profile info to search for a username