no reason to believe it violates “democratic values”

In my country the law is one of the pillars of democracy, but you do you 👍

And I think “vibe” means that they have no experience with programming so they can’t read the code they copy.

On Signal you can verify user identify, and you should absolutely do it if were to discuss national security maters.

This is not a hidden feature, I think it’s designed to prevent man in the middle attack. It also work against the “oops I accidentally added a journalist to my conversation no one should know of”, which is so dumb that no one saw this coming 😅

If you were to discuss national security maters with someone, please just verify your safety numbers, IRL or through another safe and verified channel 🙄