Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It’s centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)
Thoughts?
I’ll just say one last time: none of this information ever leaves your client device, so even if signal wanted to know the phone number of a message sender, or which group chats you’re in, they have no access to this because it all never leaves your phone. As long as you’re running the correct client code, the server can be arbitrarily malicious, and it doesnt matter.
Have a great day
The phone number you gave to signal to sign up never left your device? Do you truly believe that?
When you send a message through signal, do you actually think “nothing” left your device?