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Crackdown on open source E2EE apps in India
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
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There could be another reason for pushing towards WhatsApp. If the police have operatives in anti government protest groups only on a single platform, they already know everyone in them via their phone numbers and can monitor them more easily. Signal in contrast has the option to hide your phone number and only expose a username to the public.
don't worry, the app of all participants knows all the numbers, they just dont show them on the UI. a patched app will show them just as well
https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-upcoming-android-7-0-release/59024/51
the feature got implemented in this commit: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/bb30535afb79c8570fc7aa75b56d03892be6b70f