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The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says
(www.nbcnews.com)
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By default they're not but I mean you could just pick up another camera and take a picture of the screen anyway, so you're not really preventing anything by disabling it.
Right, so how do the other solutions solve this problem then? Kinda undercutting your own security argument with ways that NOTHING is actually secure.
As I've already explained, by allowing for multiple and anonymous accounts without a phone number requirement.
They can take all the screenshots they want but there's nothing of value for them to target the participants.
Yeah, I guess that's true - I was thinking about keeping the contents of the messages secure when I asked. But so long as you don't give enough context to dox yourself, you're right that at least individuals are not directly identifyable.