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The push name is not a username and if you don't want to 'expose' it, leave the group without sending messages. They won't see your name.
The username is visible in the group info screen. Also, if anybody types '@' it will show a list of group members and their usernames.
This has been done before.
By who and when?
Just checked if I was affected and happily I found I'd set every possible setting to private or disabled. I figure five eyes already had this information. I think they would have tools to decrypt all communications from any app, by using rooted phones that scan their own memory for common crypto libraries and then extract the keys. On the initial run it would not know where to look, and the phone would be set up to g…
If there was a way of tricking the app to think it is always online, the real status could be obfuscated. WhatsApp probably uses some Android and iOS API to know when it's open, tapping into that could confuse the app and make the online status pretty useless. LineageOS (previously CyanogenMod) had a Privacy Blocker or something like that, which you could block specific apps access to major APIs like Media Access, Ph…