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CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers (theintercept.com)

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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They never pushed it for anyone but themselves though. And they're using it themselves to work around archiving and transparency regulations.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah the fact they're personally using it to commit their crimes means they likely haven't cracked it. If they knew it were compromised they'd use something else.