<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Viss" class="u-url mention">@<span>Viss</span></a></span> to clarify, they took Signal, which is E2E encrypted and doesn't store message on the server, and deliberately modified it to just send everything to this third-party "vendor" in plain text. I wonder if that was malicious or just dumb, and how this thing ended up being used by what appears to be half the government.</p>