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Tsubasachan on Dec 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors

Signal is great and all but does it scale? If half a billion people sign up tomorrow can they cope? How deep are their coffers?

tivert on Dec 18, 2018 [–]

> Signal is great and all but does it scale? If half a billion people sign up tomorrow can they cope? How deep are their coffers?

At least $50 million, courtesy of a WhatsApp founder: https://www.wired.com/story/signal-foundation-whatsapp-brian...

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