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.
I think the government made tor too
but it’s useful for government workers to be able to securely or anonymously contact one another
the internet itself was a government funded project
so yeah signal has its red flags but might be a step up against regular phone SMS
I agree with you on that