[ezst]

> EDIT: Signal can totally be used through Tor, so the IP can be hidden from Signal.

For a centralized service like Signal, your IP doesn't matter, they own your account, literally. You can randomize it as much as you like, and your peers may too, in the end it will not hide from them who sent a message to whom and when.

[tialaramex]

Nope. As we already discussed, Signal has no idea who sent messages with Sealed Sender. The recipient finds out who sent them a message, but Signal does not.

[ezst]

> Signal has no idea who sent messages with Sealed Sender.

Sorry to deceive you, but "Sealed Sender" is just an empty promise.

Even if you could assess that this is indeed what is being done server-side (and you won't, because Moxie will neither let you, nor will ever federate his server with yours in case you wanted to run your own Signal instance), this does nothing against the fact that every message still enters and exits Signal's walled garden. No amount of indirection in the middle will change that. You are back to trusting all intermediaries' good faith (which extend beyond Signal, btw, Amazon also controlling every packet that enters/exits its cloud on which Signal runs).

[topdancing]

> Sorry to deceive you

Deceive implies bad intent, which you are not doing in this case. What you are actually doing is educating whereas Signal is the one technically doing the deceiving.