In this context signal getting banned gives more credibility to signal, but it should be noted signal wasn’t banned in India even though briar was.
I’m not sure what your threat model is, I don’t see how I’m being gullible. Looking at who bans what is a signal that we should incorporate into our threat modeling
I don’t recall. I just know India did not ban signal. But they banned all the other end and encrypted apps I use. So it’s very curious.
One of my colleagues said, and a very reasonable and intelligent colleague at that, if you were going to design a global intelligence honey pot for encrypted messaging, signals how you would do it.
I’m not saying they are, but they have the capability to, structurally their ideal for honeypot. The fact that India didn’t ban them, that’s a data point…
I still use signal, on the balance of probabilities it’s still the best platform for a general end to end encryption, but nothing is forever so I keep my options open