@Nimbius666

> don't know who you are

Well, your phone number isn't a hint about who you are? But that's not what I'm talking about.

They could backdoor clients in ways that only target specific individuals. There are a lot of different attacks they could do as they fully control the software and don't even support reproducible builds on iOS (difficult to do and prove, but not impossible. Requires a rooted/jailbroken phone to prove but it can be done. Telegram has a guide.)

Ignoring the security perspective, they're gonna need a funding model that scales to a billion users. They don't have one. How happy are people gonna be when they have to pay for Signal?