This is quite frankly a farce of a PR stunt. “Oops we hacked the UFED we stole” is not going to fly in any reasonable court. There are proper ways to get evidence thrown out and trying to use the most petty way possible since it sells well is not it.

It's way dumber than a PR stunt.

Plenty of Signal users live in totalitarian dictatorships, where the law doesn't care if you're actually guilty. Even in democracies the situation isn't great. "We're planting incriminating evidence on your phone" should lead to mass uninstall of Signal.

Except nobody really believes they did that. Signal would be banned from all App Stores, and moxie would go to jail on so many charges. It's one of those nerd law ideas where 'you can't 100% prove it' is the golden defence except it isn't really - the law can call a bluff, especially when millions of users and multiple app stores already did. It says reasonable doubt, not any doubt.