>...it doesn't change the fact that Signal doesn't have immediate easy access in the way you claimed in your original comment. I did not at all mean to imply t

>...it doesn't change the fact that Signal doesn't have immediate easy access in the way you claimed in your original comment. I did not at all mean to imply that. The assertive action that Signal would have to take might involve actual work. The question is if they could be forced to do that work by the authorities of the country they operate from. I doubt that the amount of work would really factor into the legal stuff. Signal of course might of already done the work as part of some cooperation with a national signals organization or simply because someone felt bored and contrary, but they could not admit that if they want to preserve the value of the information gathered. The E2EE encryption part is in the end the only provable aspect of Signal Messenger. The leakage of meta information is inherent when one entity controls all the infrastructure.