Signal app boss threatens to withdraw from Europe
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The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
    • ISOmorph@feddit.orgEnglish
      91·
      9 months ago

      I know it’s a pipe dream, but what if WhatsApp chooses to not compromise their encryption either. You’d have chat control but no chatting. Would be kinda interesting to see.

      • shane@feddit.nlEnglish
        16·
        9 months ago

        WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. They will whine and do whatever makes them the most money at any particular time.

      • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I hear you about going back to analog. The problem in the States is that Republicans have managed to gut the postal service and drive up its prices so that normal people can’t afford it. Electronic communication is all they can afford.

        PGP encrypts and decrypts locally. Your private keys never leave your device. Public keys are meant to be shared widely, but without the private key, anyone who intercepts the message has exactly a block of encrypted text and no way to read it.

          • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            No worries. It’s been a while since I saw anyone talking about PGP or GPG (the FOSS version).

            I think that the EU would have to ban the entire internet if they banned public key encryption. And that would make their corporations very sad.

  • Ibuthyr@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    So, what is everyone’s opinion on RCS-Chat? I’m trying it out with a good friend of mine and the functions are so much better, plus (in our case at least) it’s e2ee. I especially love the transcribed voice messages, because fuck listening to 3 minutes of blabbering when I can simply read it in a fraction of the time.

    • Bjarne@feddit.orgdeleted by creatorEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, it’s probably the best solution there is (if there would not be a mandatory phone number you have to give) But gatekeepers do what they do best :(. It feels off to advocate for it though after already bringing many to Signal.

      It is good to have an alternative, but having to need one would also mean that it’s has been already compromised by the EU. :)