Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ...
by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:08AM
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The Signal Foundation is based in Mountain View and both Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton are US nationals...
What’s stopping some US government agency from forcing them to insert code that causes the Signal app to a indicate it is behaving correctly but isn’t?
And don’t say “laws”.
If your threat model includes advanced persistent threats all bets are off.
E2E with centralized key management is primarily to protect you from casual/private threats (vendor employees, snoopers in your or your recipients network) not from legal authority.