Hacker News Reader

Now the task of an adversary is to simply enable the backdoor rather than create it from scratch. The people using Signal for this are doing it on their own devices, so now you have multiple problems.

Eg how to get non technical people to know when they’re using the civilian version.

Alternative crazy universe: Just use the tech that was created for the government and does all the right things.

View on HN

I'm not defending the use of signal. That said this strawman is very weak. It's not uncommon to have two versions of the same app on your phone these days. My Google drive instance changes from personal to company based on my identity. This isn't hard to implement securely these days.

But then you’re required to archive the discussions for the public to access. That’s much worse for these people than foreign agents (and journalists apparently) listening in and taking notes.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com