Or it’s just a perfectly normal thing that billions of people do every day?

Good

Somebody must have an exploit for the platform.

Or it could be exactly what they said it was. Seems like a good enough reason…

It isn’t.

No they can’t.

E: if someone wants to provide evidence to the contrary instead of just downvoting and moving on, please, go ahead.

analysing network traffic wouldn’t allow an adversary to see what you’re sending with Signal

How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It’s encrypted. And why does it matter if they know you’re sending a message? Literally everyone using Signal is sending a message.

I read it and don’t understand. Why is this better than Signal? Or the 500 other secure file/messaging protocols?

Jabber seemed to work perfectly for Snowden…

And it’s always been trash. That’s how you know it will always be there in the future too.

You’re using a messaging app that was built with the express intent of being private and encrypted.

Yes.

You’re asking why you can’t have a right to privacy when you use your real name as your display handle in order to hide your phone number.

I didn’t ask anything. I stated it definitively.

If you then use personal details as your screen name, you can’t get mad at the app for not hiding your personal details.

I’ve already explained this. I am not mad. I am telling you why it’s a bad product for activism.

Chatting with your friends and clients isn’t what this app is for.

That’s…exactly what it’s for. And I don’t know where you got the idea that it’s not. It’s absurd. Certainly Snowden never said anything of the sort. Signal themselves never said anything of the sort.

There are other apps for that.

Of course there are. They’re varying degrees of not private, secure, or easy to use.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

LOL you think messaging friends, family and clients is “the wrong purpose”? According to whom?

If you actually read my comment before replying to it, I already addressed this. I use Signal in my personal and professional life. I do not want my clients to message me and see my ID as fucking xX_StarLord_69_Xx. Nor my family. It would be very confusing to them. If Signal gave me an option to use multiple profiles (like SimpleX does) I would, but it doesn’t.

1. No, that’s not on me. Signal should let me join groups without my username (this is what SimpleX does)

2. The point is not to blame Signal, the point is to highlight that it’s not safe to join these activist groups with Signal for this reason, and political action groups should not be using it for this reason, unless you use it exclusively for this purpose, which is also not good, because then it means you’re not using it for your personal communications.

My username is my name. As is my profile.

It certainly had some Mastodon code but I think they sent them a C&D and they removed the it.

“the messaging service X”

Yes but which messaging service?

There is no security issue that I’m aware of.

Ideally the creator has their own accompanying written version…

Simplex does not give you anymore security. It does however, provide anonymity.

your profile…is also end-to-end encrypted

That’s fine if one of those ends isn’t a public activism group.

If you don’t want your name and profile picture shared with randos, either don’t set them

I use Signal to talk to people I actually know, both personally and professionally. I don’t want to message them from some sort of unidentifiable alias. And if I did they would know my alias and could disclose it to law enforcement.

or don’t chat with randos.

You mean randos like you might find in a public activism group chat? Yes, that was my point, thank you.