Signal's CEO: Then We're Leaving Sweden | Sweden Herald
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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.
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Yeah, but why do they feel forced to? I understand the EU is imposing fines on Meta and Google because they have branches in member states. But Sweden can do to Signal as much as the US could do to The Pirate Bay.
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Brainlet questions what possible benefit a Swiss company that sells privacy might receive from cozing up to a fascist state.
Lies about what the CEO said.
Thanks non-profit is anything but a tax status. Hasn't paid enough attention to all the "non-profit" companies switching to for-profit as soon as it's financially convenient.
Doesn't realize that Proton's biggest security vulnerability is Proton the organization.
Fucking lol.
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"Now"? Apps like Signals are constantly under fire. Whitaker already told the whole EU it would just leave if they introduced the "chat control" legislation.
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You just encrypt it with every key. It's wasteful, but not all that complicated.
At that point, you just don't encrypt things at all.
