Conspiracy theory confirmed: Signal "encrypted" messaging platform is actually US intelligence asset
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Signal is going to comply with warrants and anything else they’re legally obligated to provide. Is there evidence that they have access through other routes. Possibly but this doesn’t prove it one way or the other
Signal is end to end encrypted, meaning even with warrants and access to Signal's servers, the government can't see much.
You could argue that the government has a backdoor to whatever encryption algorithm Signal uses, however Signal is open source and if you wanted to you check that for yourself.
I think the most likely explanation is that either Tucker or the other guy's laptop or phone was hacked and the messages were intercepted that way.
A heads-up for anyone new to Linux & open source software:
Open-source doesn't automatically mean trustworthy.
Open-source has the enormous advantage of publicly visible source code but most of the time, that code is:
This is why we see linux development & adoption receiving exponentially less resistance from the PTB.
They are confident they will be able to sneak backdoors into popular open source software.
I'd like to add : Checked pre update, and laziness updates without checking.