On Monday, a major outage at Amazon Web Services affected a large number of websites and apps, including end-to-end encrypted messenger Signal. In response, X Executive Chairman and Chief Technical Officer Elon Musk claimed that he no longer trusts Signal. “I don’t trust Signal anymore,” Musk stated, plainly.

To be clear, the centralized infrastructure upon which Signal relies does not necessarily put encrypted communications made via Signal at risk, as Signal does not hold the keys to the encrypted data held in that infrastructure.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker responded to Musk’s post on X, noting, “Signal is trusted by the security and hacker community, and hundreds of millions of others, BECAUSE they can examine it, and because on examination, it has shown to

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