"You would be a fool and a poor spook if you created Signal as a honeypot and made it insecure from the get go to anyone looking. It would be made insecure eith

"You would be a fool and a poor spook if you created Signal as a honeypot and made it insecure from the get go to anyone looking. It would be made insecure either later on or by an extremely hard to find "bug". We know from Snowden that the NSA secretly weakens encryption products to make them vulnerable. All your case proves(?) is that Signal is a better made honeypot than Telegram if any of them are actually a trap. " You can't be serious. Anyone can show that vulnerability in the codebase. Signal has internal code review processes, and the git log is public. There is no better process out there, or if there is, you'll have to explain it. There is no perfect process but if you're trying to argue that justifies Telegram doing nothing wrt e.g. group chat end-to-end encryption, you're out of your mind. Here's the thing: There's nothing that indicates Signal has a backdoor. OTOH, Telegram doesn't have to be converted into one, it ALREADY DOES IT. All that the NSAs of the world have to do, is hack the server. And since you're so intimately aware of Snowden's output, might I remind you of his SXSW talk from 2014 where he said NSA hacks systems all the time?