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Eh. At some point, the threat isn't how good your crypto is but rather how much you're willing to sacrifice to keep it that way.

Signal's authors may be more technically competent than a government security officer, but Signal can be coerced into releasing an update that surreptitiously changes the behavior of the application whereas well-protected NSA officers are (theoretically) more immune.



Yeah, now work through how they do that without alerting their targets.




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