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sroussey ◴[] No.43996825[source]
Employees at Signal must be getting bribes as well, or even threats of violence since they can get nation state Secret communications these days.

Got to make it so employees can’t do anything nefarious. This helps protect them.

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lawn ◴[] No.43996839[source]
How would employees of Signal access the encrypted messages?
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1. sroussey ◴[] No.43997852[source]
They don’t need to.

Under specific conditions, the client can communicate with malware already on device, save data locally for other software to pick up, or downright stream the decrypted software to a third party.

Most likely is to introduce a flaw in the client that can be used by other walware on the client.

Clearly no red team members on HN these days.

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2. sroussey ◴[] No.43999226[source]
Indeed, it is what TeleMessage does.