@jerry I think it's too early to tell who/what is going to be targeted but this is going to be the second fight over the right to have encryption. DJB must be spinning in his office chair.

But if Signal isn't attacked from the front I still think there's a chance they'll get attacked from the back. The CIA had some level of involvement in the creation of Signal and that has always left a bad taste in my mouth.

The same org (Open Technology Fund, an offshoot of the CIA's Radio Free Asia) also funded other projects like Tor and Wireguard, but those are fully open source and Signal is not. We don't know what they could be putting in the officially published clients on the app store or what's lurking in the server codebase.

I think we need to be vigilant and demand more transparency from Signal tbh.