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Let's see. In many countries Signal is now the primary communication tool for politicians. They love to communicate securely, without the risk of getting caught by law enforcement ;)

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That's easy to solve though. They could easily write exceptions to any anti-encryption bill for public orgs who have access to sensitive information (police, politicians, etc). In fact, I would be shocked if they didn't make exceptions for certain parts of the government.

Sure, but they still need to get an app somewhere. And also all the people they want to communicate with need that app. And that are not just other politicians, with them they can anyway communicate face to face in meetings. But politicians can't meet up with shady people. If they meet up with CEOs it's always on some record. But with Signal they can just text with them in secret.

Signal is there. And you can also install it on private devices, that's what politicians like even more. That even their own intelligence agency can't read the messages.

A lot of politicians are corrupt, and they don't like laws that make it harder for them.

Don’t tell the Luxembourgish government, they still use Whatsapp (seriously) for communication (some also use Signal et al.) but not a majority. And I personally use it amongst other things to communicate with whistleblowers ;)

> In many countries Signal is now the primary communication tool for politicians

citation please

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-to-staff-switc...

This was the beginning. I know from corruption cases in Austria, that a lot of politicians were using Signal. You can find it in the documents of the prosecution.

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