A 12 year old kid in India was able to clone the Signal app, change the branding, publish it on the Play Store, get tens of thousands of users, get news coverag

A 12 year old kid in India was able to clone the Signal app, change the branding, publish it on the Play Store, get tens of thousands of users, get news coverage, and yet it took Signal 4+ months to get that application blocked. Signal, afaik, hasn't made a public statement on the clone application and whether the users were impacted in any way. News Report (2020-09-04): https://keralakaumudi.com/en/news/news.php?id=383731&u=a-bold-attempt-to-fill-the-space-left-by-chinese-12-year-old-makes-app-for-chatting-provides-though-competition-to-whatsapp https://keralakaumudi.com/en/news/news.php?id=383731&u=a-bol... Report after which the app was taken down (2021-01-12): https://twitter.com/selfrefute/status/1348994641165631488 https://twitter.com/selfrefute/status/1348994641165631488 Edit: On second reading, realized you meant Federation, and this isn't that (the clone app talks to the Signal servers)