You can’t be consciously aware of being wrong about something. It’s a contradiction. The moment you admit it means that you don’t think it’s true anymore, which makes you stop being wrong.

Don’t missionaries go to heaven as well?

Signal would only shrug and hand them metadata

So at the very least by using Signal the government can know everyone you communicated with, at what time and where. And still is considered a private messenger. Amazing.

Obviously you are missing the point. Even Gmail is private if you are going to do the job of encrypting your messages by yourself, but that’s irrelevant with what we are discussing here.

What we are discussing here is that if you are a company offering a service of encrypted communications located in the US, the government has all the power to force you to shut down if you don’t give them access to what they want. And that’s not speculation, they’re actively doint it because they are backed by the law.

Why people are so naive thinking that the government are not going to do something to get what they want when the law is on their side, when sometimes they don’t hesitate to do it even when it’s blatantly illegal?

The only way to avoid surveillance is with free, open source and descentralized software. If there is a company in charge of running the software that’s a vulnerability and, like the cases already mentioned, those in power are going to exploit it shutting the service down if the company doesn’t comply.

It doesn’t matter how much you like or trust the service, there’s simply no reason why they wouldn’t do it again when they already dit it successfuly. Why some people who care about privacy can’t see this obvious fact is beyond my understanding.

If it’s so easy why Lavabit and Silent Circle had to shutdown?

Since when is encryption dependent on the service’s jurisdiction?

The US has a law that applies to any US company operating within its borders: it is illegal to tell your users that the US government has asked your company to spy on their behalf. This is called a key disclosure law, and the US’s version of it, called National Security Letters, underwent an expansion with the PATRIOT act; by 2013, President Obama’s Intelligence Review Group reported issuing on average, nearly 60 NSLs every day.

Companies that don’t comply with this law are forced to shut themselves down, or remain open, and grant access to user communications to the US government. The Signal foundation is a US domiciled company and must comply with this law without being able to disclose that they have been issued an NSL letter.

Luckily we don’t yet live in that world

Comply with the government order of granting access to messages or shut down implies that we are already in that world, long ago. What makes you think that what happened to Lavavit and Silent Circle would not happen to Signal? Only wishfull thinking can make you think that, evidence tells you otherwise.

You are very naive if you think that a company located un the US can provide an encrypted messaging service that can be used by anyone including terrorists, druglords and US enemies without the government being able to access the messages. Lavabit was a famous case and had to shutdown because its founder rejected to comply with an order from the US government to grant access to information. If you are using centralized communication service located in the US forget about privacy.

”Lavabit is believed to be the first technology firm that has chosen to suspend or shut down its operation rather than comply with an order from the United States government to reveal information or grant access to information.[3] Silent Circle, an encrypted email, mobile video and voice service provider, followed the example of Lavabit by discontinuing its encrypted email services.[25] Citing the impossibility of being able to maintain the confidentiality of its customers’ emails should it be served with government orders, Silent Circle permanently erased the encryption keys that allowed access to emails stored or transmitted by its service.[26]"

“Levison (founder) explained he was under a gag order and that he was legally unable to explain to the public why he ended the service.[21]”

It almost impossible to that all the data collected from you (by all the apps you used, no only by Google) will be deleted, mainly because it’s already out there being traded by data brokers. That’s why I think that deleting your accounts is not the best approach for privacy. I think it’s best to keep an old phone with all your accounts and every now and then watch a random video, make a random search, follow a random profile, and so on with all your accounts. Over time your true profile will become obsolete and buried under fake data.

So every citizen of a country whose government commit atrocities it’s culprit of that atrocities by default. That’s a perfect example on how ideology distorts your clear thinking and leads you to the same indiscriminate violence you are trying to prevent.

The only way to escape from that is using a degoogled phone and non proprietary apps/software.

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The problem is that probably many Israeli players also condemn the genocide of the IDF and the government and also are being insulted. That’s the problem with attacking an individual because of their nationality, race, etc Basically you are being prejudiced.

No psychopath would.

HW are an unnecesary third party risk in my opinion and a waste of money. Just grab an old phone and use this guide to turn it into a cold storage. Tldr: install a software wallet and never connect the phone to the internet again and use QR codes to sign transactions using the camera. Super practical, cheap, truly air gapped and doesn’t call attention like a hardware wallet.