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Crackdown on open source E2EE apps in India (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Is it just me, or the government of India is cracking down of all end to end encryption apps like signal and element.

Cause I guy who works for the police came to my house and asked whether I use signal and element

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago

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

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