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>>pera+(OP)
One has to wonder about behind the scenes heuristics as it pertains to taking a chance distributing a backdoored version sideloaded into the App Stores. One also wonders about whether the encryption or app are possibly compromised generally (even if the source is vetted and distributions are verified)

Perhaps most of interest though would be how many phones are owned otherwise, to give access to the protester Signal comms anyway

And also metadata must still fly around anyway, no?

>>killsw+f3
Signal does a pretty good job at minimizing the metadata it has access to. For example, the app can tell you who of your contacts has Signal installed but the Signal service itself never gets to see your contacts (https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/).

>>raspyb+R3
Signal absolutely could do better in minimizing metadata by simply not requiring a phone number. Despite this obvious, huge, and dangerous shortcoming, I have never seen a single explanation of why Signal needs a phone number for signup.

>>canjob+Xd
That feature is coming and should be released shortly according to the team.