Convenience. Why bother with stuff like, say, validating your Signal "safety numbers" to ensure that you are actually talking to your contact and not the police

Convenience. Why bother with stuff like, say, validating your Signal "safety numbers" to ensure that you are actually talking to your contact and not the police? Instead, just farm out all the boring detail to someone else and buy a "secure" phone for $1-$2k. Unfortunately, at that point you are no longer effectively end to end. There was a case where a company was selling a "PGP phone" where it turned out that, to save having to bother the customer with key generation on the phone, they were doing it on the servers[1]. So the police grabbed the servers with all the private keys and there were a lot of sad customers. To do end to end encryption in a way that works, there is a minimum level of understanding required. These "secure" phones are really a type of scam that preys on the not sufficiently informed. [1] https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/57036/cyber-crime/blackberry-pgp-messages.html https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/57036/cyber-crime/black...