Signal shipped its biggest update in years: a second phone can finally be a linked device, plus automatic key verification. Commits hint at signup with no phone number.

Also: rival app stores land in Google Play, and a DEF CON flight got a fake Wi-Fi.

- Tune in to the latest Surveillance Report: youtu.be/Vj6fV3Ozlec
- Watch on PeerTube away from Google: techlore.tv/w/x5zSBeZnYtRWqByV
- And of course, read the written newsletter version for the 5-minute read: techlore.tech/signals-biggest-

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@techlore Also they have just published a Linux version for Arm chips - finally! So that it is now much easier to install Signal on Linux phones. I had been waiting for that for years.

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