82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones

Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by pjc50 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:54PM (#22131159)

Yes, that sounds about right.

There are not a lot of people who can do crypto well, and they tend to be too weird to make good government or megacorp employees. The NSA will have people capable of doing it, but they undoubtedly have more important things to do than write a chat app.

They could hand a billion dollars to Microsoft or Amazon, who would happily take it, but would that produce a better result? Or any results at all?

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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by ryanmercer on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:47PM (#22131812)

>and they tend to be too weird to make good government or megacorp employees.

Or simply do not want to work for the government or a megacorp.

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