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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by throwwwwaway9 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:58PM (#16127789)
>>How will Microsoft and Skype handle backdoors now

Backdoors require quite a few MSFT people with--way more than--FU money agreeing to it. I would bet that something like this would leak. All it takes is one to annon leak a screenshot or a memo

Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by ChrisRus on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:32PM (#16128099)
Need to know. Members of the kernel team generally have zero knowledge of what happens in the build lab between the sources and the product that's released to the world.