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[โ€“] variaatio@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because they can't without backdooring the software? Just like they also refuse to co-operate with Swedish government and threatened to leave the market should Sweden try to force them.

You know Russian spies can also use TOR onion routing and so on.

As for phishing there is nothing Signal can do about someone scanning a signal contact sharing QR and adding it to their contracts list beyond informative "hey are you really sure, really really sure you want to add this contact". If user trusts someone they shouldn't, no amount of app policy protections help. Or maybe they manage to shish them to scan and approve "share account to another device". Again nothing Signal can do about that.

[โ€“] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

As long as there's a clear confirmation dialog.