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News for the week of 2024-02-19

The Prepared Support - 2 months ago

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      Eric - 2 months ago

      Signal was already highly recommended for secure/encrypted communication between two people. But one thing prevented its use for anonymous communication – the use of phone numbers to identify contacts. Signal just announced an optional username approach to identify contacts so that phone numbers can be completely hidden.

      https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

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