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Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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This sounds great. Nothing bad could happen here. I'm sure the people developing this are competent.
Extremely competent, saying Signal is not private by design.
While very disingenuous, it's not technically incorrect.
Signal is secure by design, and is extremely good at that with a very well designed and vetted cryptographic protocol.
But privacy isn't one of their primary goals, nor should it if it comes at the cost of security; for example, for the longest time you needed to share your phone number with everyone you wanted to talk to, and everyone in every group chat you are a part of could see it.
Really?! Based on their website, I'd say privacy is their primary goal, and personally I'd say they've done a great job at it