It's way dumber than a PR stunt. Plenty of Signal users live in totalitarian dictatorships, where the law doesn't care if you're actually guilty. Even in democ

It's way dumber than a PR stunt. Plenty of Signal users live in totalitarian dictatorships, where the law doesn't care if you're actually guilty. Even in democracies you can't always rely on the courts. "We're planting incriminating evidence on your phone" should lead to mass uninstall of Signal. Except nobody really believes they did that. Signal would be banned from all App Stores, and moxie would go to jail on so many charges. It's one of those nerd law ideas where 'you can't 100% prove it' is the golden defence except it isn't really - the law can call a bluff, especially when millions of users and multiple app stores already did. It says reasonable doubt, not any doubt.