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As an aside, I'm very much convinced that Signal's primary objective is to gather phone numbers in order to facilitate the US government tracing social networks of people who are already of interest Their main focus isn't on what these people are discussing, they want to know who is talking to whom first and foremost. Signal's subpar user experience is a feature from this perspective. Due to its inconvenience for the average person, those with a strong need or desire to communicate sensitive information are more likely to utilize it.
What's with all the hate on Signal on here? I see probably one post a week trying to bash it because of some unproven conspiracy about it.
It's a non-profit whose goal is to provide encrypted private chat.
Signal is literally just a chat service. The user experience is on par with any other service, except it's backed by a trust in the company to not sell out on the end user because it's a non-profit and isn't beholden to any shareholders.
It's a non-profit run by ex-CIA people that's hosted centrally in US, and being aggressively marketed as the only legitimate means of secure communication. Any time somebody points out the many problems associated with Signal, people swarm in to defend it as the one perfect secure chat platform that everybody should be using. Weird!
Yup, I got dogpiled with smarmy comments downplaying my pointing out that the Open Technology Fund (that's affiliated with Radio Free Asia) audited the Signal Protocol. I still try to get people to switch to it from SMS or Whatsapp (with limited success, an ex was one of the few who already had it installed prior... cuz of their dealer), but it's not like I have any illusions of organizing the revolution on the app