Is Surespot the Latest Crypto War Victim?

George Maschke writes: Patrick G. Eddington writes in a Christian Science Monitor op-ed about indications that the government may be snooping on users of Surespot, a free and open source encrypted messaging app for Android and iOS. Such users include, but are hardly limited to, Islamic State militants. He writes in the piece: "Has encrypted chat service Surespot been compromised by the US government? Surespot user and former Army intelligence officer George Maschke recently published a provocative theory suggesting the answer is yes. Mr. Maschke’s key pieces of evidence are intriguing. In May 2014, he e-mailed 2Fours LLC, which is Surespot’s parent company, asking whether the company had ever received a National Security Letter (NSL), a court order to provide information, or other government request to cooperate in an investigation. He was assured in writing that 2Fours had received no such requests. That changed in November 2014, when Surespot’s founder, Adam Patacchiola, told Maschke via e-mail that 'we have received an e-mail asking us how to submit a subpoena to us which we haven’t received yet.'"

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And then?

[wonkey_monkey]

If you're going to end your summary with something that happened in November 2014, you could at least hint that there are further developments to be read about in the article, even if you can't be bothered to copy-and-paste those into the summary itself.

TL;DR: no-one at Surespot is answering questions about whether or not they've had any Gubmint interference, and someone who used to work there, but doesn't any more, won't talk to anyone about it either.