[quercus]

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[tencentshill]

Yeah! Signal has nothing to do with technology. The government trying to snoop on a private E2EE service is not worth discussion.

[zahlman]

> trying to snoop on a private E2EE service

They are not trying to break encryption. They got a tip-off from a private citizen who got past vetting and infiltrated the group.

[hobs]

Many people on hacker news have a reason to care about the united states government's position on signal and their evolving efforts relating to civil rights.