Signal's CEO: Then We're Leaving Sweden | Sweden Herald
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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.
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Is this law broad enough to also catch up Proton and its services?
They don't need a law, they already logged and complied on request
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Yeah, I don't get if these are Proton PR bots, or they're just heavily invested in the company and are in denial. They just take that PR, add some flourish then a bunch of unrelated BS.
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He clearly didn’t support Trump in general
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so it’s not possible to add backdoors
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Proton business model is inherently disincentivizing them to do so. They are a profitable company with a clear profile that would lose so many customers if they decide to do so.
Didn't work on you
Proton is incorporated in Switzerland, it’s unclear what the benefit would be to “appease” Trump.
Straw man
So even if Andy Yen was a full on MAGA, he still wouldn’t have autonomy to decide that.
being a non profit and him owning enough of it to do what he wants are unrelated.
There is absolutely nothing in the history of Proton that suggests they would be open to backdooring their software.
There is a long track record of choices to protect users’ privacy.
Tell that french activist they turned logging on for and gave up to the authorities.
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That's the secret you give them all the same backdoor.
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I wanted to reply to your points but someone beat me to it.
Learn to think critically. Close the app for a day, cool off and re-read all of these replies.
Do you think we would all just dump on something for the fun of it or just to piss you off? This isnt reddit.
Cmon man, take a second, look around and understand that the taste of boot leather is not very pleasant. Proton is not here for your privacy ... I mean it is, unless you're a french journalist ... or a person of interest for the right people.
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Apps like Signals
This was about a different app named 'Signal', I think, without the s.
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Half of the original article:
The Armed Forces, on the other hand, are negative and write in a letter to the government that the proposal cannot be realized "without introducing vulnerabilities and backdoors that can be exploited by third parties", reports SVT.
So that's covered.
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I mean beyond everything else, any group actually interested in the safety and security of citizens (so, not politicians or cops anywhere apparently), should be pushing everything to be encrypted everywhere. In the modern digital world anything not properly encrypted is at risk for ate tracks by bad actors.
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"It is harder to convince someone they have been tricked than to trick them in the first place" and such.
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Not unless turned into EU law, or a lawsuit over it reaches EU court. Individual countries can't change the rules of the union on their own.
There's already EU court precedence against mandatory backdoors
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WireGuard protocol logs very little information by default. There is literally no way to make it log more than it does by default.
Even then, Mullvad has no customer information. You're given a customer number, which is intentional.
I stand my initial post in that there is very little, if anything, to record on a Mullvad server. If I'm not mistaken, Mullvad recently announced they are running all VPN services through a RAM only setup, therefore, there aren't even any drives to record customer information even if they chose to.
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Is there a supremacy clause like what the US has? Like, if the EU court has a ruling, does a member country get to override that?
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Just a typo.
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https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/types-eu-law_en
Each country may still have the equivalent of a constitution, and the majority of EU laws are directives which the country may translate to fit their local law, also there's various negotiated exceptions to EU laws. But the general idea is that the treaties establishing EU are meant to require full cooperation
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The EU in general uses civil law, not common law. Courts in general don't establish precedents, so it does not matter what a court rules beyond that specific case, laws are wrtitten to be super specific, and you generally can't challenge laws in court like in the US.
The EU works through a double process of lawmaking.
It can create directives that are like how US laws work as they need specific interpretation, except it's national legislatures, not courts doing the interpretation.
And there are regulations - like the GDPR - that have to be adapted and enforced verbatim.
This is a cornerstone of the ongoing Big Tech dispute, they thought they can forum shop by buying the Irish judiciary, but they can still get indicted, even for the same violation, in any other EU court if that court also has jurisdiction.
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There is no such thing as a precedent in EU law. Any court can in general disagree with any other court. Appeals still exist, but they are only valid for that one case.
Judges don't make laws here.
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Yeah, to be honest if you need to hide from the government, don't use Proton. Actually, don't use email.
Proton is good for hiding from Google and Facebook, and not having a life full of ads.
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Well yeah, they are not attacking Signal the company, just their core busibess model.
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What about Threema?
