Quote · The Tucker Carlson Show
Hacker Kim Dotcom Issues Dark Warning on Surveillance, Electronic Voting Machines, and Nuclear War
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Signal Is Compromised: No Communication App Is Safe
At 11:50 · chapter starts 11:31
Tucker raises what is likely the most practically relevant question of the interview: are apps like Signal, WhatsApp, or iMessage actually secure? Dotcom's answer is an unqualified no — and he singles out Signal as the worst offender [1] — Kim Dotcom "Signal isn't safe. According to Kim Dotcom, the US government has a backdoor into Signal and laughs at everyone who thinks they're protecte…" 11:31 . The reasoning is counterintuitive: Signal's very popularity is what makes it most dangerous. Everyone uses it, which means the US government has invested in a 'big door' straight into it. Dotcom is unequivocal that there is no secure communication tool he would endorse. The implication is that anyone who has shared genuine secrets over Signal — and Tucker notes that people with 'real secrets' do — has been fooling themselves.
Signal isn't safe. According to Kim Dotcom, the US government has a backdoor into Signal and laughs at everyone who thinks they're protected. There is no communication tool he would recommend — they are all compromised.
Dotcom singles out Signal as the worst app for privacy because mass adoption has made it a prime surveillance target with a known government backdoor.
AI is the next phase of the surveillance state. It will be plugged directly into the US government's mass data collection systems and will know everything about every person on Earth. The only defense is to avoid AI and the internet entirely.
