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Comment by amelius

12 days ago

In theory, yes. In practice, doubtful. A system is only as strong as its weakest link.

These types of organizations learn to build their own submarines to transport drugs all over the world undetected. I think they can manage a fork of Signal/Session with any backdoors removed.

  • Indeed.

    With sufficient motivation (money is a great motivator), everything is possible, especially if not doing X will remove said money, and/or put you in jail.

    It's not even like they need to fork Signal/Session, they could get by with GPG encrypting a gist and uploading that, sharing the link in signal or wherever.

    As I initially wrote, weakening encryption only harms law abiding citizens, as everybody criminal probably faces much worse charges than breaking encryption laws.