To me the shocking thing about the USA Gov't is that they manage to lose trillions in the defense dept that they can't account for, but somehow are unable to develop their own communications apps? What? Signing messages with a crypto key takes like 4 lines of code. It's not rocket science. Yet they use some corporate app?
My only theory is that they're pretending to have only 'Signal' so that when they want to they can allow hackers to "see" stuff they WANT to be seen. Like a disinformation honey pot designed to misdirect America's enemies. While they actually have a totally separate secret app that is secure and is developed by the NSA.
I don't think the current administration came up with the idea of using Signal. However whatever team did was pretty "security illiterate" (to use a polite phrase), unless the NSA is secretly operating Signal from the inside. It's hard to know which is the case.
I heard they use "Signal" as an official app. That blew my mind. Sure they must have others, but why are they even allowed to use commercial apps at all? That's insane.
My only theory is that they're pretending to have only 'Signal' so that when they want to they can allow hackers to "see" stuff they WANT to be seen. Like a disinformation honey pot designed to misdirect America's enemies. While they actually have a totally separate secret app that is secure and is developed by the NSA.