? It's not about encryption. These emails were subpoenaed.
Apple chose to keep these emails around because the value of the emails was greater than the risk of keeping them.
I’m sure that some form of side loading will appear soon. My guess is that all the privacy and integration will be held at arms length from the rest of the ecosystem and may just use webkit to access the user data.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-to-pay-1-8-billion-...
Article is paywalled, but how can it be proved they’re using something like Signal? There must be at least some discussion available to be disclosured on request by law? How do they define if the subject is relevant enough to require a formal exchange between executives?
The world of big public companies is fascinating.
The threat model for signal is not to get you out of your legal obligation to comply with court orders.
Public companies have to keep audit-related communications, but not something like this [1]. It comes more from civil litigation, where the standard of proof is the preponderance of evidence. If I sue you and produce partial records, and you say you deleted everything, that can be used against you.