It sounds like you are worried about a threat model (being identified by your government) that Signal is not designed to, nor attempts to address. There are so

It sounds like you are worried about a threat model (being identified by your government) that Signal is not designed to, nor attempts to address. There are some workarounds that may satisfy your needs, such as using a different phone number provided by Google Voice or Twilio.[0] It may not be for you, but Signal does a very good job of solving the problems it does aim to solve for the millions of people who use it. [0]https://medium.com/@mshelton/using-signal-without-giving-your-phone-number-3a575580f652 https://medium.com/@mshelton/using-signal-without-giving-you...