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Even State Department-funded Human Rights Watch admits that authorities combine legal and illegal methods to obtain convictions: https://text.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases
Combining dragnet surveillance with device hacking is intended in the design of both tools. Hence, State Department-funded Signal dupes you into handing over your identity as part of the population-centric mapping. In custody, your phone will be hacked when it is taken away if it's important.
https://xcancel.com/hannahcrileyy/status/2034273723667161480#m
It uses a phone number.
Phone numbers havent been required for at least like a year or so
That isn't true. You still need a phone number to sign up.
Hm now I wonder what to do about that, as they have had my number for a while now.
Do they let you sign up purely with username and password? Or do they make you use insecure email?