Signal’s exploding popularity among messaging apps, has lead many activists to re-open signal’s case, and consider why a “secure” yet popular platform has garnered little to no response from US government officials.

As it turns out, the US government was (and possibly remains) itself a primary funder of Signal.

  • Kapow@exploding-heads.comOPM
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    2 years ago

    I guess the concern is if the government can spy on “illegal things”, who defines those illegal things?

    Do they include:

    • political opinions not endorsed by the government
    • free speech not endorsed by the government
    • discussing medical treatments not endorsed by the government
    • using the wrong pronouns when referring to people
    • communicating with people the government does not like- etc.
    • Masterofballs@wolfballs.com
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      2 years ago

      The government already knows all these things about you.

      You can determine your political opinions, medical preferences, whether or not you support pronouns in Bios from the YouTube videos you click, like, subscribe to.

      You can derive all that information from secondary traits.

      For example, almost everyone who was against vaccine mandates were to the right of the political spectrum.

      Unless you use all your accounts anonymously (and you should) never use online shopping , use throwaway go phones, don’t register for grocery store cards your dataset that the NSA has access to can explain everything about you pretty easily.