This is pretty alarming stuff.
Especially considering how that competitors like Signal are US based. Signal is owned by twitter which by no means is a small player, so it isn't likely to fly under anyones radar.
Especially considering how that competitors like Signal are US based. Signal is owned by twitter which by no means is a small player, so it isn't likely to fly under anyones radar.
But it's definitely a stretch to believe that they've accepted them, or that it's worked. The protocol and the source code are public and well-reviewed (Telegram has a much less well-reviewed algorithm and does code drops on GitHub); it'd be a challenge to successfully fit a back door in Signal.
The thread that @durov was replying to was portraying being hired away from a public crypto project as a "bribe". Certainly that's a thing you could successfully do, but it also doesn't weaken Signal's encryption as long as there are still people working on it.
No. OWS != WS