WhatsApp has begun allowing users to reserve usernames ahead of a broader feature launch planned for later this year, prompting a wave of questions about security, impersonation risk, and account linkage that security researchers should be tracking closely. According to WhatsApp, usernames are optional, not mandatory, meaning existing phone-number-based identification remains the default authentication and […]
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