Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages

naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• shads@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes it would be, let’s hope more companies follow that example. The more companies that make it clear that Australian politics are never an excuse for compromising the privacy and safety of their users the more hope there is that the message will start to get through. Plus we could serve as a salutory warning for the rest of the world… “Wow go down the path of driving whole market segments out of your economy has bad effects on that same economy.”

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  • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can totally see Australian politics being OK with signal leaving, since that would push users on to other less secure/more compliant apps

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    • shads@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You might be right, but its going to get harder for them to crow about the wins ASIO is making when competent people are spinning up more bespoke solutions they have even less hope of compromising. Plus when people go down the current path that the UK populace is what are ASIO going to claim next, VPNs have to be banned. You know Australia lacks the technical competence to implement that correctly, suddenly every business is having their workflow broken to appease a bunch of “intelligence” wonks. The further they over reach the more likely they will trip themselves up.

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      • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A messaging app is extremely hard to “spin up bespoke solutions” for, because a solution’s success is 99% dependent on the network effect.

        Perhaps when a protocol like signal but decentralised is available, then we might be able to say that.

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      • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think that the number of folks who will run bespoke solutions will be so small that it’ll be insignificant. Signals benefit is its ease of onboarding. If Signal leaves ASIO knows there’s nothing else out there for 99% of it’s users.

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    • quokka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You mean apps that they’d really like you pass age verification by having MyGovDigitalSurveillanceDefinitelyNotTrackingYou app?

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