Signal's CEO: Then We're Leaving Sweden | Sweden Herald
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The question was what Signal would do though ...
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It would have been good of the article to mention that important tidbit...
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Leave Sweden so they dont have to follow these regulations.
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And now they'll hear something bad about Signal and move on as they did with WhatsApp, as per your example.
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It happened like 2 weeks ago so I will forgive them for missing it.
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Itβs worth noting that mullvad is based in Sweden
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I don't get how its supposed to work...they want to require messengers to include backdoors in their software? So when a program is FOSS, then you can literally just use it knowing there is no backdoor..also, what blocks you from using a server in different country? Wtf that even means...
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No wonder they pussied out and removed port forwarding
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Uuh... Ok? How is that relevant?
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And gobbles Trump's knob publicly.
They won't need a law to force compliance.
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Mullvad has proven time and time again that they don't log anything at all. Even if they give backdoor access, there's nothing to record.
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Directly.
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Sci-fi writing in here I see
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There needs to be a messaging app which provides a backdoor for every government that requests it. Every time some dumbfuck legislator asks for a super-giga-secure-backdoor they promise not to misuse, they should be directed to that app.
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I'm not familiar with EU law, but wouldn't this set a precidence across the whole EU?
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Literally the first sentence of the article: "The government wants Signal and Whatsapp to be forced to store messages sent using the apps."
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Don't know if it's a trustworthy source, but:
https://cornucopia.se/2025/02/forsvarsmakten-infor-krav-pa-signal-for-samtal-och-meddelanden/
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Meanwhile, the Swedish Armed Forces recently decided to use Signal for secure communication: https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2025/02/forsvarsmakten-anvander-appen-signal-for-oppen-kommunikation-med-mobiltelefoner/
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Technically only for non-classified internal communication. Classified stuff is restricted to fee discussed only using military approved locked down hardware. But still, issuing a strong recommendation for Signal above all other options when communicating using regular devices is a good thing. Lots of "regular" conversations can still leak more than you expect through metadata, timing, etc, so they trust Signal to protect that
