This seems like a perfect use case to support Signal. Have large, corporate or govt entities, pay for a custom fork of the app, built by the app developers themselves.
Why is telemessage getting the money ? Does the Signal Foundation not make it easy to do paid fork implementations ?
Certainly it's better for the gov't to pay Signal than to try to do it themselves.
The MobileCoin integration and the long standing refusal to support a way to use the messenger without using a phone number (or a smartphone at all) make me wary. To me they sit pretty much on the same level of trust as Meta's WhatsApp, which is a sad thing to have to conclude.
Government has a ton of policy requirements around data retention, audit logging, where their data is stored, who can access it etc, as well as technical requirements for things like encryption algorithms. They also have a requirement to operate on isolated networks.
It is difficult for an ordinary consumer messaging app to meet these requirements. Matrix is really the only competitor.
MobileCoin is prioritised ahead of allowing an iPad-like secondary device experience on Android tablets, for example.
In any case, saying their priorities are misaligned because they don't scratch your particular itch is making a mountain of a molehill.
https://community.signalusers.org/t/android-tablet-support/5...