The CIA has very good reasons for end-to-end encrypted messages to be widely used. You can't have agents in the field using custom apps just for themselves. You need them using a standard that lots of other people too to blend in.

One of the reasons why the US govt supports Tor too.

Your source is ridiculous: “In other words, Signal gifted the CIA “well over a billion” potential insurrectionists, by providing them with a means to organize their activities away from the prying eyes of local authorities.”

This is undeniably a good thing; freedom to revolt is a good thing.

petertodd

alter_native

EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

Rsync25

1) good.
2) it angers me more and more what sort of controlled theater opposition Signal is, keeping up this facade of "we protect your privacy", while it is literally a CIA project. (though maybe it now does it out of anger, because they dropped them; https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia)