Signal said they will jist pull out of any country that demands a back door.
Back doors don’t work. Just ask American telecom companies to talk about how easy it was to get Salt Typhoon out of their back door.
Comment on EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!
jim3692@discuss.online 5 days ago
My question is: even if EU manages to apply laws for backdooring encryption, wouldn’t cybercriminals just use different tools? They may force Signal to backdoor its encryption, but what about Briar? Will they backdoor the Tor network? Will they ban it entirely? What about Matrix? They can’t prevent offshore encrypted instances.
Geodad@lemm.ee 4 days ago
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, means Signal would just not have a presence eg an office or local routing/CDN servers in the countries that demand backdoors.
It would mean slower service for anyone in such countries, but the service would not stop working or become less secure.
It’s negative either way, as it chips away at the legitimacy of private E2E chat, and legislators the world over seemed determined not to learn that there’s no such think as “backdoors, but just for the good guys”. You either have a resilient end-to-end zero trust encrypted system or you don’t.
jim3692@discuss.online 4 days ago
Would hosting in Albania be a solution? It’s in the Europe continent, but it’s not a member of European Union. UK is also fighting encrypted communications.
tfm@europe.pub 5 days ago
Bingo! It’s simply surveillance of the masses.