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CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers (theintercept.com)
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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They do. They don't use it because these tools actually have archiving and transparency tools to allow investigating federal agency. All such discussions must be archived for that reason. They use Signal for the disappearing messages.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So they're criminals? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

[–] wedge@lemmy.one 1 points 3 months ago

On the surface this sounds right, until you realize that they announced that signal is on their devices by default indicating it's within policy. So they're clearly not using it for some compliance workaround otherwise they wouldn't be announcing it.