Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoNot really.
This happens everywhere. It’s the police job to ask for access and it’s the signal CEO’s job to decline.
Ultimately the ASIO (aus federal police) won’t call signal’s bluff because signal leaving isn’t good for them. Threat actors would just use some alternative platform.
ASIO (aus federal police)
I mean, sort of? The Australian Federal Police would be the Australian federal police (the hint is in the name!). But it’s true that ASIO does take on many roles that in America are done by the FBI, while AFP does more typical things associated with policing.
Amazing.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 days ago
australia is also a special kind of fucked up with this though… the assistance and access act that passed in 2018 is absolutely horrible