There’s a shitload wrong with Signal from an architecture and engineering perspective but it seems very silly to ban it unless they’re planning to ban all encrypted telecommunications and prevent consumer/residential endpoints from cross-communicating with each other. Otherwise what’s the point? The cat’s been out of the bag on cryptography no state can crack until fairly far into the future, for decades now, so I’m not sure what the sudden urgency is all about…
Had a math prof once that worked in post quantum crypto who talked about getting stopped at airports because intelligence was worried about him selling stuff. Wish he was that based. Dude was absolutely brilliant though, would just sort of work problems out from scratch every time for his upper level algebra courses even
