I wouldn't call it unstable hackery. There's a library called signal-cli that's being used to develop a native desktop app for signal (as opposed to the absolut

I wouldn't call it unstable hackery. There's a library called signal-cli that's being used to develop a native desktop app for signal (as opposed to the absolutely horrible electron web app available officially). The server software is open source already, so it isn't hard to develop a to spec working client that only spoofs identifiers to prevent detection.