Signal President Spars With Elon Musk Over Trust in Private Messengers

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…