> Having signal be tethered to a real phone number does give you a point to root your account around, and allow recovery. It also makes it dead simple for most

> Having signal be tethered to a real phone number does give you a point to root your account around, and allow recovery. It also makes it dead simple for most users, even nontechnical ones, to use and understand. They don't even have to do anything special, their Signal contact list is already bootstrapped when they install the app.