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The Signal messenger and protocol.

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Lost my username somehow, anyone else had this happen? (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Signal has usernames? Huh. When did that happen?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

A year or so ago? I think its part of their transition away from phone numbers?

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Desktop signal yes.

Doesn't having them expire/get reused open them up to impersonation attacks?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hopefully by "taken" it means that it is in some kind of cooldown before it can be used again.