F-Droid has received funds from US Congress (via OTF), just like Signal

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

Depends what the funding is for. If it’s payment for compliance with CALEA (which has become a major revenue stream for big tech), then it’s compensation for building backdoors.

[refalo@programming.dev]

I don't consider those to be useful anymore because a court can compel them to keep the canary up in secret, and I'm pretty sure that's already happened more than once before.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

That's never happened in history

[refalo@programming.dev]

How would you know?

You probably wouldn't have heard about it simply because it's illegal to publicize a secret subpoena/warrant. Such orders are given as National Security Letters with a permanent gag order, going so far as to preventing the recipient from even seeking counsel; it's a massive abuse of power and due process in the US to get companies to lie and do whatever they want.