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The big part of this story which nobody is talking about is the fact that the app is literally controlled by a bunch of “former” Israeli intelligence officers. Who now have what is arguably the worlds most valuable access out of anyone.





The US and many other countries have been buying Israeli surveillance tools for years or decades.

I would hope that any message archiving is being done on an organization-owned server though.


> The US and many other countries have been buying Israeli surveillance tools for years or decades.

Yes, tools like Cellebrite and zero-day exploits.

Those are tools which are used to spy on people outside of the government.

This is a tool that has data created by the government.


> I would hope that any message archiving is being done on an organization-owned server though.

There's compelling evidence that the messages all pass through TM servers before being archived.

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-use...


There's compelling evidence that the messages all pass through TM servers before being archived.

The question is where the E2E encryption goes between.


The E2E encryption is likely not even relevant, unless I'm missing something?

The builds that are distributed would likely just send the plaintext un-encrypted message separately to the archive, and I'm guessing that means it goes right to TM servers before being dispatched elsewhere.


Ah yes, it's end-to-end alright, end-to-end cleartext.

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> Israel’s grip on DC’s balls is far too strong

I more or less agree.

> We’re literally an occupied nation

The language of the US under occupation is a neonazi talking point, ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government) being a phrase neonazi morons like. Maybe a coincidence.




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