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by tmiku 444 days ago
Soatok wrote a good blog post about this that was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43471223 The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption (41 points, 42 comments)

The gist is that there are potential threats that any end-to-end encryption cannot fully protect against. Signal is a good provider of that encryption, but there are other considerations to protect highly confidential data, and Signal often lures non-technical users into disregarding those.