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Sms is also not secure, kinda not what signal is...
Signal started out as textsecure, an sms/mms app that encrypted your text messages. It quietly started sending messages over its server at one point after an update, but before that sms is what it was about.
That's interesting, I was always under the impression they were moving away from sms because they wanted a more secure client.