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Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ZeroCool@feddit.ch to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like that is also by design. If your account is compromised, you wouldn't want them to be able to pull messages from your existing devices. It kinda defeats the purpose of them not being stored on the servers.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

They could just make it opt-in, no?

"New device X has logged in to your account. Do you want to transfer existing history on this device to it?"