exactly. signal was chosen precisely because it is widely considered to be secure and, more importantly, outside the purview of any mechanism which would hold them to account.
This is not the only chat group on Signal, I’d wager.
absolutely.
still, this is a reasonable boost for signal and briar (or similar) as a backup.
Reasonably secure for the average consumer, not for intelligence work.
oh, agreed. these people should have been nowhere near it - as evidenced by their incredible fuckup.
as an average consumer, and barring binary or device compromise, I do trust signal and a few others to traffic info that could incarcerate or worse.
Intelligence work also requires intelligence. These people would be using AOL Messenger if it were 2005.
To be fair, it’s also not secure for the average consumer, if they accidentally add a journalist to their gc
