@cwebber I once talked with someone who had set up a Signal account while trying not to use any Android or iOS devices. I believe part of what they did was use some emulation, including the Android SDK. There's a step where one has to scan a QR code. To get around that: the SDK includes a sandbox for testing camera functionality, and lets the user "walk" around a little "room" -- and you can put specific images on the "wallpaper".
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I went to a Newsday.com article.I went to a Newsday.com article. I faced a paywall. I used Firefox's Reader Mode to try to read the article anyway. And I learned that their anticircumvention measure is encoding most of the story using a 1-letter-shift Caesar cipher. (Pretty easy to detect given "NYPD" turning into "OZQE".)
Evidently Der Spiegel has done the same thing: https://web.archive.org/web/20180228012650/http://tsjuzek.com/blog/hacking_der_spiegel.html