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We should be aware that signal might not be the promised lands. It was created by a CIA affiliate. It's also suspectible to National Security Letters from the U.S., requiring it to disclose information about its users.
A viable alternative might be France based Olvid. But I haven't done much research on them.
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Tor was created and is funded by the US Navy. Does that mean we should stop using Tor? Also Signal was asked to provide data previously and the oy data they were able to provide was the last time the user logged on, and the time that they registered which is farrrrr outside of my threat model and 99.99999% of people's threat models
Signal is way better than a lot of the alternatives as they do not have much data about you.
Checkout this video about what the US government got with a subpoena to Signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oPeIbpA5x8