[shrubble]

Steps before self-ending:

1. Feed cat, ensure that friend will adopt cat.

2. Talk to any family members.

3. Uninstall Signal

4. Take too many Ambien.

Or:

“I’m sending this to you confidentially so please don’t respond since metadata will show I contacted you.”

Reporter: responds anyway

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

> since metadata will show I contacted you

What's the point of the reporter not responding?

[shrubble]

The metadata was or probably still is being collected from the notifications on the phone. So while Signal itself didn’t leak data the notification popup was. The sender wouldn’t have a popup, but the receiver might. Thus sending to the reporter vs receiving from the reporter would matter.

I should have worded that part more clearly.