Or use a third party client that doesn’t have as much scrutiny on the source code and will Leak your message s

Given what you’ve said, Signal is still what you want and is good for it.

There are two main issues people have with Signal:

First is that it requires a phone number to sign up. That makes some people who want it to be truly anonymous unhappy. It’s not meant to be anonymous, though. It’s meant to be private. Those aren’t the same thing.

Second is that it runs on AWS. This isn’t a problem in the sense that it’s possible for it to still retain privacy while running on AWS. Some people don’t like it because they view the dependence on the infrastructure of an American company to be a risk to availability. They also believe that it would exacerbate a security flaw if one were found.

Personally, I know these risks and still find it to be the best balance between privacy, security, and ease of use.

Eh, it entirely depends on your threat model. If you’re trying to protect against mass surveillance, it makes sense because you’ll only sometimes have a functional microphone powered on. If you’re trying to protect against a targeted attack against you specifically, then yeah Bluetooth had some problems. You have bigger issues at that point, though. I also think Bluetooth is probably more secure than you think.

It fails to include a libre software license text file.

I don’t think this really makes sense as the leading point. More like “It’s run by Meta and who knows what kind of backdoor they put in”

Yeah, it uses the signal protocol, but who’s to say they don’t have a secret member of every conversation.