Even State Department-funded Human Rights Watch admits that authorities combine legal and illegal methods to obtain convictions: https://text.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases

Combining dragnet surveillance with device hacking is intended in the design of both tools. Hence, State Department-funded Signal dupes you into handing over your identity as part of the population-centric mapping. In custody, your phone will be hacked when it is taken away if it’s important.

https://xcancel.com/hannahcrileyy/status/2034273723667161480#m

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    How soon before using the Fediverse or running Linux/BSD on your desktop is considered terrorism?

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      22 days ago

      This article has already been shown to be alarmist and incorrect fundamentally. This is from X and like everything else on that site, it smacks of pro administration lies.

      CM, cut this shit out mate.

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    Signal, if forced to do so, don’t actually have the ability to give the messages within (despite a backdoor in 2019 discovered by Chinese scientists, of which was since removed). That’s from what I’m aware of it, at least.