Signal's CEO: Then We're Leaving Sweden | Sweden Herald
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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
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I agree that it would destroy the reason many people use it, but they aren't outlawing Signal specifically. What they are doing is arguably worse, but this isn't an "anti-Signal" action.
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Imagine the complexity of the encryption algo with 100 different custom made backdoors!
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Then politicians would simply require for "any technical measures to ensure the backdoor to be available" or something like that, meaning it would be Signals' job to ensure the backdoor works. They don't give a shit how something is done (IT is just too complex for most of them), only that it gets done somehow. For that very reason federal digital services are such a shitshow so often, they just don't understand what they even ask for so professionals always have to work around politicians' demands constantly breaking even the most basic security principles.
