Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be forced to weaken the privacy protections it has built its reputation on. In an interview with The Globe and Mail
It’s refreshing to see this because it’s so rare that there’s any real pushback to the global race of countries attempting to strip their citizens of any remaining scrap of privacy.
can more canadians please let your mps know you’re not into having backdoors in supposedly secure platforms that criminals would take advantage of?
Brilliant shit. I too am looking forward to moving my family to a self-hosted alternative. /s
While it’s nice to see Signal push back for us … I will be really disappointed if I can’t use Signal in the future.
Saw this alternative the other day.
I too have herpes. That’s all I can think of when I read simplex.
Encrusted chats on account of the cold sores around the mouth.
Genital Simplex.
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And maybe my Aunt is really my uncle and about to transition into a bicycle.
I can see this happening with other companies, but for signal
- they have a consistent track record of loudly fighting against similar laws and threatening to pull out of markets if the law is passed
- the client app is open source and so they can’t make any secret deals
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The server is also open source. (No guarantees the actual server is running that codebase, as is always the case with servers, but the codebase is out there)
Seems like a huge risk. You either lose a part of your userbase by leaving the country, or you risk losing your reputation internationally if it’s discovered that you are complicit in spying, and reputation is everything in the world of encrypted messaging.
