This is a very good point. However, nothing can protect you against a NSA-level adversary. Signal is designed to protect you against Google or Facebook.https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1347455529241612294 …
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(as a TL;DR, the hardware is user-verifiable, and the FPGA-based approach makes it infeasible to build universal backdoors into the main IC)
It's an adversary with unknown capabilities and 10B yearly budget. You can replace NSA with any other infinite-resource adversary. I.E. Signal is not invulnerable to exploits.
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First thing I noticed too 
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