…if they’re brazen enough to blame their use of Signal on Salt Typhoon / the systemic Chinese hacking of communications in the USA by subverting state-mandated surveillance backdoors?

It’d be amazing — and possibly harmful to adoption of E2EE as we’d be forced to concede they might be bit right about that.

Perhaps if they’re…

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Perhaps if they’re really worried about classified data, they could move the USG to using X/Twitter DMs?

In the meantime:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22but%20his%20signal%20messages%22&src=typed_query&f=live

Update

It seems that there’s a history of this kind of thing, e.g. from 2021:

so it appears Meadows was conducting government business on Signal https://t.co/cNj6rpNeYV pic.twitter.com/xpbHPPZxK0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 15, 2021

Update 2

Ooch. March 14th.

Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) March 14, 2025