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by input_sh 1898 days ago
1. It's not a company but an NGO. Therefore, in theory, as long as they can cover the operational cost, they should be good. Of course, there's plenty of NGOs that don't do that.

2. https://signal.org/donate/ wasn't that difficult to find.

3. Brian Acton (WhatsApp co-founder) "donated" a hundred million to it. In theory, that alone should keep them running for at least a decade, but the "donation" was more of a loan with 0% interest, meaning that Signal will have to re-pay it back at some point. Also, just to make it shadier, he happens to be the chairman of the Signal Foundation. So he loaned the money to the org he's in charge of.