mcc on Nostr: If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers ...
If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers illegal, the way they are going to read your messages about it is they will arrest the person you sent the messages *to*, and make your counterparty show them the logs. We know this because this technique came up again and again in, for example, the Jan. 6 court filings.
There may, hypothetically, be other Signal exploits available to a government, but this is the one they will use, because it works.
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2025-02-07 22:18:39Event JSON
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