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by throwaway101416 3507 days ago
With Signal, you clearly do as they send a lot of your information to Google explicitly (like contacts) and Google has root on your phone.
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Is that completely accurate? As Moxie explained elsewhere they do sync contacts, but that's optional. I'm not sure there's any other dependency beyond the GCM push, which I don't know is very concerning.

Google definitely has root on your phone, but is that automatically an implication that Signal is compromised?