> Signal is just a messaging client.
It's pushed as a secure messaging client, and so when it doesn't meet the standards for that people will mention it so potential users have the information needed for a risk assessment.
It's pushed as a secure messaging client, and so when it doesn't meet the standards for that people will mention it so potential users have the information needed for a risk assessment.
If a country has gotten to the point that you would be targeted just for having an app installed, just changing to usernames wouldn't be enough, as users could be easily detected through network logging (thanks AWS and Google for killing domain fronting [0]). Your usecase sounds like it needs an app like Briar.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16970199