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> I think it's required to sign up.

Ok, now where are Signal's servers hosted? You're not safe for any secret police from those countries and countries friendly to the hosting countries.

> It's never used after that (unless you want to use it).

As in there's no way to accidentally leak your phone number to your contacts on, say, a new installation that comes with the option to make it visible by default?



Edit: You are making one uninformed assertion after another. Stop making endless errors and just look up these things at signal.org. They are very open about it.

> Ok, now where are Signal's servers hosted? You're not safe for any secret police from those countries and countries friendly to the hosting countries.

Signal is very open about what information they collect, which is all they can produce: a phone number, and "the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service".

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

> As in there's no way to accidentally leak your phone number to your contacts on, say, a new installation that comes with the option to make it visible by default?

Is there? What are you claiming, and based on what? There are infinite speculative security risks.


> There are infinite speculative security risks.

Yes, and a lot of them come from them insisting on having your phone number...




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