Besides the technical and legal points raised it's in the last paragraphs that the most important point is raised: > The timing looks kinda fash. I also think

Besides the technical and legal points raised it's in the last paragraphs that the most important point is raised: > The timing looks kinda fash. I also think the timing of Signal’s blog post was suboptimal. Why? Because Cellebrite devices were used in some of the criminal cases against the Capitol rioters, to extract data from their phones after they were arrested. It’s still early days in those criminal prosecutions, those cases are still ongoing, and there are hundreds of them. (I don’t know how many of them involve Cellebrite evidence.) The DOJ is already stretched extremely thin because of how damn many of these cases there are, and if even a fraction of those defendants got Cellebrited-upon, and they all decide to file a motion to examine the Cellebrite device and throw out the Cellebrite evidence, that will add further strain. > Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of the DOJ, as you may have guessed by now. But I also don’t like seditious fascists, and I think the people who tried to violently overthrow our democratically-elected government should be caught and held accountable. And the timing of this blog post kinda makes it look like Moxie — who is famously an anarchist — is giving the fascists ammunition in their legal cases to try to get off the hook. As said, I don’t think it’ll work, and even fascists deserve due process and not to be convicted on the basis of bug-riddled spy machines, but it’s helpful to them nonetheless. It's the usual knife/gun conversation again but indeed - as in the author's words - that likely won't get him anymore job with Signal.