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I MAY be alone on this but i think this whole “Signalgate” thing is a psyop made to make the app look bad and have the government look into it or shut it down (hexbear.net)

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Think about it: A privacy‑focused app the government dislikes used by activists and dissidents gets dragged into a scandal it didn’t technically cause and that scandal becomes political justification for scrutiny and possible investigation

When something protects privacy, shields activists, can’t be surveilled, and is widely used by people the government considers “enemies,”

then any incident, especially a dumb mistake by a public figure becomes an opportunity to push the narrative that "its bad"

Hegseth literally invited a journalist into a private Signal group. The app didn’t leak. He did.

But the public takeaway is shaping up to be:

“Signal is unsafe.”

Activists, dissidents, and “uenemies” use Signal heavily. When an app becomes central to organizing or communication for groups the government dislikes, it moves up the target list.

TL:DR, “This scandal feels like it’s being weaponized to smear Signal and justify government pressure

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

I'm not an expert but I've got a friend of a friend who works in digital security (to the point where he applied to CSIS and boy is that an interesting different story) and I was asking him about Signal.

He seemed to be very confident that Signal's code is completely public, that if it had secret backdoors or whatever people would know.

He also confirmed that while Signal may be secure (not a statement he made definitively) your phone very likely isn't, so it's a moot point.