Meanwhile Signal Corporation keeps trying to connect to updates2.signal.org even when the app is not being used. "Automatic updates", remote code execution by default with no option to disable

Silicon Valley has its own ideas of what "privacy" and "surveillance" mean

To those folks, it does not mean privacy from Silicon Valley companies

The Signal app will keep on trying to connect to the mothership

Because to the people who work on Silicon Valley software, that is not a privacy violation

The battle is over _control_ over software not privacy or surveillance. The later is not possible without the former

Silicon Valley does not want the user to have control any more than they want the government to have control