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Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
(theintercept.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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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
But doodlebug69 needs to accept a message from you before you can see their profile info.
They have the username already, they don't need to see their profile info to search for a username