A Third Party Breached The Intercept’s Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers

notwithstanding: > On ownership, it seems a bit ridiculous to me that you would feel “ownership” (in the property sense, as in, “this is mine forever”) over an account (or in this case, just a username) that exists in someone else’s database. When I said “ownership” I meant control over the account, not ownership in the property sense. notwithstanding: > Even email services eventually turn over their inactive addresses. It would be good to examine Signal’s ToS wrt inactive accounts. If it states nothing about inactive accounts/usernames, users may expect to maintain ownership (control) over them indefinitely. If the ToS states inactive accounts/usernames are deactivated, a balance between security and recycling accounts/usernames would be prudent. AFAIK some email services are smart enough to freeze used email addresses after they have been deactivated.