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Why wouldn't the United States employ DARPA or the NSA to create a non-commercial mobile communications platform for high ranking government employees? Is signa
by hnpolicestate 2y ago
Why wouldn't the United States employ DARPA or the NSA to create a non-commercial mobile communications platform for high ranking government employees? Is signal in bed with the government? I must not be technical enough to understand the reasoning.
- krapp 2y ago>Why wouldn't the United States employ DARPA or the NSA to create a non-commercial mobile communications platform for high ranking government employees? Because high ranking government employees don't want to be told they can't use whatever they're already familiar with for whatever they want, and they would rather heaven and earth move to accommodate them than be inconvenienced. Even if it exists, which is probably does, you can't force such people to use it, they'll just have you fired and maybe have the program axed for good measure.
- ooterness 2y agoThey did. They are legally required to use those systems, which also make it easy to archive the official government records that are also legally required. Every government employee has annual training emphasizing these legal requirements. The problem is these officials chose not to use the secure systems, because they don't want those records to exist.