Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoplans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content
Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoplans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
A regular captain of industry for whom the automatic searchers of his zero-privacy messenger is one step too far lol
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Even if signal was insecure and had no privacy (which it it secure and private), wouldn’t you still prefer people needed a warrant or some form of document that had to go through the court before your messages could be read?
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Obviously not. Think about supply and demand. Because a toxic product is being hailed as secure there isn’t enough demand for an actually anonymous and private messenger. So calling signal “secure” is just helping state security.
If you actually want to message about revolutionary (illegal, “terrorist”) activity and don’t want to be traced immediately by an agent of state security or an informant, Signal offers nothing (unless you use criminal activity like identity theft). In such a case a warrant will obviously be granted and they can immediately find and arrest you.
Can you see the logic how Signal isn’t secure at all for an actual dissident?