US Government workers and military planners love Signal now

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23 points·namanyayg··10 comments

Interesting link bait:

> The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.

It’s beloved by millions that care about privacy and security.

Is it even relevant that Elon Musk likes it? He wasn’t even a character in the latest scandal.

Rules for thee but not for me

If the US government needs a secure messaging app, why don't they make one internally?

They have internal highly secure chat systems with locked down hardware. They probably prefer Signal as it is not logging everything they say for internal review and they can chat with friends, business people, lobbyists. Just guessing.

My theory is based on my own experience of running my own locked down chat systems. Most people will prefer Discord but will use my systems in the rare cases Discord goes offline for a prolonged period of time.

That logging is legally mandated. You literally said they like signal because they want to break the law. Which is a part of scandal.

Indeed

That would be wasteful - Signal is open source, works well, and has been audited more thoroughly than any proprietary alternative would ever be.

Government officials are required to record their communications. Signal is also not approved for secure communications. And while Signal the protocol and company might be secure, the phones it runs are not.

The real answer is: plausible deniability.

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