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Nobody who understands the topic thinks this.
Signal exists to prevent the contents from being read off the wire and from having the capability of compelling Signal's parent company from turning over stored messages.
It doesn't exist to hand hold you so you don't get phished, or prevent you from running it on a vendor phone full of spyware. You're responsible for making sure your hardware is secure and that you're not socially engineered.
Yes, and articles like this are important so people who DON'T understand don't think this.
You don't think the tens of millions of people who use signal all understand that just because everyone says it's super secure, doesn't mean they can't be hacked or phished, right?
They even inform you in the app about spying vectors like keyboard apps...
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360055276112-Incognito-Keyboard
Yeah most people click through warnings like that lol