Christian: 'If we can give it a higher rating or if we can dispel rumors, then we
need to make that part of our first post.'
Discipline first: debunking a rumor must not buy score, or the instrument
becomes a PR department with a database attached.
What the rumors actually did was correct one under-informed dimension.
- incident_record 7 -> 8. The 2026 'Signal was hacked' panic is a documented
phishing campaign. FBI/CISA PSA260626 says plainly that the app and its
encryption were not compromised, Signal published a precise correction within
days and shipped linkage confirmations by 2026-05-13. Fast, accurate,
independently corroborated.
- Total 75.9 -> 76.4. Half a point. That is the correct size.
- Everything else was already priced in: the OTF funding was already docked under
ownership, the phone number already docked under user control.
Evidence rows added for the FBI advisory, Signal's statement, the itemised
,955,000 OTF funding record (2013-2016), and the UK/Sweden exit commitments.
The recompute gate verified 76.4 from the weights and scores, not from trust.
