Signal's CEO: Then We're Leaving Sweden | Sweden Herald
-
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.
-
Apps like Signals
This was about a different app named 'Signal', I think, without the s.
-
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.
-
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.
-
"It is harder to convince someone they have been tricked than to trick them in the first place" and such.
-
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
-
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.
-
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?
-
Just a typo.
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Well yeah, they are not attacking Signal the company, just their core busibess model.
-
What about Threema?
-
Good point
-
goatse.cx used to work wonderfully for that.
-
A long comment that doesn't say anything.
Yes, what possible benefit could a Swiss company that sells privacy might receive from cozing up to a fascist state?
Yes. What? Is Trump going to send them customers? Money directly? What is the benefit. If it is so obvious to you, state it clearly.
One of his direct statements btw
Quoted out of context. Yes, he thinks that Republicans are more likely to fight against big tech. Stupid? Naive? Probably. But it still doesn't mean supporting Republicans in general (or Trump).
BTW, don't take my word for it, he explicitly elaborated that point in a reddit comment.Thinks non-profit is anything but a tax status.
Imagine lol
Proton is still a for profit company (tax status muh) but it is controlled by a nonprofit, which means that the steering wheel of the nonprofit company is in the hands of an organization with no profit motive, with a solid board.
Now let me hear the mental gymnastic about tax status.Doesn't realize that Proton's biggest security vulnerability is Proton the organization.
Again a sentence that doesn't mean anything.
You want to explicitly say what this threat model means? Go ahead. Throwing things like this is pointless.Actual clown shit trying to bait people into the honeypot.
Keep your tinfoil hat, I don't care. I am not promoting even, I am stating some facts about the fact that it seems very unlikely that Proton will backdoor their encryption for no reason but to please Trump.
-
I found the other Threema user!
-
"Learn to think critically, ignore the actual facts you put together to explicit your actual reasoning, trust the fact that if 10 people down vote you or argue with you, you must be wrong"
I can't see any problem with this logic.
Yes, I think plenty of people are incompetent or just terminally online and see purity testing as a form of political activism. The fact this is not reddit doesn't mean much.
that the taste of boot leather is not very pleasant.
Q.e.d.
Let me tell you from my socialist perspective why this is absurd. Defending an organization that is an underdog in the industry, that creates product that don't harm users, that pushes for the right values (privacy) and at the same time developed a healthy business model (no VC funding, privately owned, but also no cloud usage that reduces costs and keep the money in the EU/EEA, no delocalization) is in my interests, because it is a step in the right direction within a toxic and harmful industry.
You call this boolicking? Go ahead, for me it is actually a political success if more orgs like proton succeed and outcompete big tech.unless you're a french journalist ... or a person of interest for the right people.
There is no org that can defend you from the law being applied. If that organization wants to exist they have to comply with the law. In all those cases we should blame the government for abusing laws (like antiterrorism laws for that environmental activist).
Also in neither of those cases (I am aware of 2) any mail data has been disclosed (IP addresses for VPN connection they have been forced to log and recovery address, respectively).
