Doesn't matter. Signal is going to drop SMS support shortly. It's the new vision of their new diversity-hire President.
A secure communication app shouldn't know your phone number anyway.
It's one of the reasons that in reality there is no such thing as 'secure' and 'on a phone'. But signal does work on desktop. Specifically linux/bsd. There's also no such thing as 'secure' and 'on windows' unless you have full time NSA employees at your disposal to harden it for you. If you are on either of those devices you might as well not attempt privacy because there is no point.
A secure communication app shouldn't know your phone number anyway.
Why not? It has to know some unique identifier or it can't route messages to you.
The unique identifier doesn't have to be your phone number with your phone bill, credit card, and most importantly your name, attached to it...
If only someone could invent some technology to generate random globally unique identifiers. Maybe some programmer can get on this. /s
And doesn't it rely on the OS not being inherently compromised? India just doesn't have the back door key like other major governments do.
Unlikely. Someone can, and probably will, simply maintain the old code base.
Don't even need that. Just don't update Signal app.
Unlikely they would make such a business decisions without the intention of providing a backdoor in the first place, so would have to do that anyway.
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