Comment by 1276-1279
21 hours ago
They funded it from the start via Radio Free Asia (CIA) and the Open Technology Fund.
Signal is for protecting opposition groups that help in regime change operations.
Why would people embrace privacy nihilism? The Signal shills also agitate against gpg/PGP, so we know it is secure and you should use that instead.
>Signal is for protecting opposition groups that help in regime change operations
SMS registration flow is trivially blocked in places where regimes are controlling telecom infra. And Twilio is unreliable in dozens of places for non-political reasons. Signal is very first-world centric from this point of view.