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Surprisingly unsurprised that the CIA can't and wouldn't bother making their own in-house secure communications platform given they allowed a literal Russian asset to become President.
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.
So they're criminals? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
Every person in America is a criminal. I would assume this is true in many countries, but american governments at all levels love rules.
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.
Well, developing and maintaining an in-house solution costs money, freeriding Signal's service is in fact free...