> Pretty much no one does any sort of identity verification anyway on any E2EE messaging system. Even my tech-illiterate mother asked if I was hacked or just g

> Pretty much no one does any sort of identity verification anyway on any E2EE messaging system. Even my tech-illiterate mother asked if I was hacked or just got a new phone (I got a new phone). The study you link is from 2018, I think it's not a bad assumption to say that people have had some education since then. In 2018 I just started using Signal, nowadays everybody is on it, in my various circles.