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Why wouldn't signal just move their company to some random other country? It's not like they make money from their users, and people can easily sideload the app

Why wouldn't signal just move their company to some random other country? It's not like they make money from their users, and people can easily sideload the app.

aleph_minus_one 1y ago
It is suspected that Signal was originally financed by the CIA: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia-cuts-funding https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/signal-faci...
- prophesi 1y ago
  Wasn't TOR originally funded by the CIA as well?
  - hollerith 1y ago
    No, the Naval Research Laboratory. The Navy wanted to give its researchers and strategists a way to look stuff up on the web without anyone's being able to see what they were looking up.