> As moxie said, it's about raising the defaults of the world, not about making it secure for the crypto nerd. The thing is, the attacks in the "crypto-nerd pa

> As moxie said, it's about raising the defaults of the world, not about making it secure for the crypto nerd. The thing is, the attacks in the "crypto-nerd paranoia" category tend to become everyday attacks over time. Pre-Snowden, most people would put a lot of the things the NSA is doing into the "crypto-nerd paranoia" bucket. Now we know they were wrong to do so. Signal routes all conversation metadata through one infrastructure, which becomes a very tempting target. By also requiring phone numbers as identity, they make it very easy to tie that metadata to real people and perform graph analysis on it.