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For those not following the topic, among others, the UK, EU, US - all officially endorsed the use of Signal for official government use.

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Do you have a link for that? I often get ask questions about secure messaging, and I always have a hard time giving anything better than "it depends".

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UK example reference: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/20/uk_conservatives_br...

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EU example reference: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/24/21150918/european-commiss...

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US example drafted by NSA: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Apr/24/2002288652/-1/-1/0/CSI...

* Note this document is for public release. If you dig around you will find references to deploy US Special Forces even using Signal for official communications within combat zones.

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Thanks a lot.

>US Special Forces even using Signal for official communications within combat zones //

Do they have some other systems for using Signal on, they can't use it on regular mobile phones without being tracked by base-stations, surely?

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