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It's not your account any more. The new owner gets "your" SMS and phone calls too. The identity is backed by the ownership of the number, not your person. Impo
by 8organicbits 4y ago
It's not your account any more. The new owner gets "your" SMS and phone calls too. The identity is backed by the ownership of the number, not your person.
Importantly the safety number will change since it's a new device. If you care about stuff like this, verify the new device out of band and distrust any unexpected changes. Most people don't care and they still see a huge improvement over plain SMS.
- kibwen 4y agoThough note that your message history is still private, as you have to manually export and import the local message history whenever you get a new device.