this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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that closed source code part you mention is on the server side... the client and protocols used are fully open source and constantly peer reviewd. signal cant really "leak" your messages to anyone since they are end to end encrypted.
https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/