Suar Mustafa ☀

In 2020, an Israeli digital intelligence company named Cellebrite told the world they could crack Signal. Signal is the world's most secure messaging app. Cellebrite sells phone-cracking tools to the FBI, ICE, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and over 60 governments. They charge millions per contract. Police use their devices on protestors, journalists, and dissidents. So when they bragged on their blog about breaking Signal, the man who built Signal got curious. His name is Moxie Marlinspike. A few months later, Moxie wrote a now-legendary blog post. It started with a sentence no one expected. "By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me." Inside the package was a complete Cellebrite forensic device. He took it home. He opened it. He reverse-engineered the software the FBI uses to break into your phone. What he found was embarrassing. The software had massive security holes. Old code from 2012. No protection against malicious files. In simple terms, any app on a phone could plant a hidden file that would take over the Cellebrite machine the moment it scanned that phone. Once the machine was hijacked, Moxie could rewrite every report Cellebrite had ever generated. Every police case. Every court submission. Every piece of digital evidence. Then he published the exploits on the internet for free. Cellebrite's stock dropped. They quietly removed Signal from their list of supported apps a week later. Here's the wildest part: The same man who hacked the FBI's favorite phone-cracking company also built the encryption that protects three billion people every day. WhatsApp uses Moxie's encryption. Google Messages uses Moxie's encryption. Facebook Messenger uses Moxie's encryption. Three billion people. One man's code. Given away for free under the AGPL-3.0 license. The FBI publicly admitted in court they cannot break Signal. Bill Barr personally complained about it. The DOJ tried to legally force Signal to add a backdoor. Signal said no. Mark Zuckerberg uses Signal personally. Edward Snowden uses Signal. Every privacy researcher on Earth uses Signal. The repo is signalapp/Signal-Android. 28,000 stars. No ads. No tracking. No phone number leaks. No backups stored on any company's server. Just messages between two phones, that no government on Earth has ever been able to read. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

For March: 80% of households in the Runaki programme were billed less than 59,000 IQD.