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Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/creating-apps-like-signal-or-whatsapp-could-be-hostile-activity-claims-uk-watchdog

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  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    By that logic, it’s also a hostile activity to close the bathroom door when I’m taking a fat shit. Privacy isn’t just for criminals.

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The response to "what are you trying to hide" is always "WTF do you need to see so badly?"

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      • radamant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That one is easily rebutted by “Well, we’re looking for pedos. Won’t you think of the children? I bet you’re one of the pedos, aren’t you?”. And it, sadly, works on people.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It could be considered biochemical warfare

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      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure my bathroom qualifies as a brownfield site

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  • brillotti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m tired boss. This governmental fight against privacy all over the world is wearing down my willingness to be on the internet at all.

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    • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Now is a great time to invest some time and effort into offline hobbies, whether they be on your computer or otherwise. Limiting or eliminating your time online these days is just a straight net gain for your mental health, especially if you can fill that gap with some other fulfilling activity.

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    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am already self-hosting Matrix for my friend group. I suppose where just gonna move more and more stuff onto there. Doesn’t fix the issue, but you don’t have to go quietly.

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      • pfr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m self hosting my own xmpp server. Feels good.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s what they want. The internet is open information and that jeopardizes the power of powerful people. Can’t be having that. So they’ll continue to try and break the internet until they get their way.

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This year has been absolutely relentless. Got to be the worst year for privacy by far, and tech in general. Especially in the UK and especially these last few months. I will never forgive Labour for this. I know a lot of the legislation like the online safety act was passed by the previous Tory government but they were supposed to be an improvement, not come in and start immediately enforcing it to a greater extent than the Tories.

    I don’t think there’s been a single week since the summer where I haven’t seen something that’s filled me with dread. I think it’s actually making me sick at this point

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    • darreninthenet@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This was very much the previous Labour government as well though - attempted ID cards, restricted what you could photograph or film, made it illegal to not disclose a password when asked by police and so and on

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    • Frozentea725@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah its been an affront on all sides. Privacy and freedom of expression is dying, unfortunately the majority of the population will only realise the levels of authoritarianism too late.

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      • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        As long as they can still access TikTok and Instagram they probably won’t even care

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The politicians who wrestled back control of the Labour party through a campaign of smears with the help of Israeli-linked Jewish groups and who, immediately after that started at purge of any with dissenting opinions from that party, had more than demonstrated their love for Machiavelism even before rising to Government purely on the back of the First Past The Post system and Reform splitting the far-right vote thus costing the Tories lots of seats.

      Also, as others pointed out, this fact of Labour has long had an autoritarian strain, both in terms of the insane civil surveillance infrastructure they built last time they were in Government (as exposed by the Snowden Revelations) and their relentless weakening of privacy and even pretty basic legal rights.

      This is really not surprising: the goose stepping into Fascism in the UK has started a while ago, it’s just that it’s a posh kind of Fascism wrapped in layers of deceit and disguised as “Rule Of Law”, unlike in places like for example Hungary were it was closer to the more traditional “strong-man with and iron-fist” Fascist image.

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      • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh I definitely agree, and I didn’t vote for them. However I was still cautiously optimistic when they won last year as I thought surely they have to be an improvement over the Tories? Turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The UK has become a mockery of its own legal system. Even the current state in the U.S. respects common law more.

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    • ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s a bold statement!

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  • m33@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In what North Korean province is this ?

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  • pfr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The UK is really battling to knock the US of the top of the fuckedest country list ain’t it

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    • D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Our only saving grace is that we got rid of wildly dodgy boris johnson and then never voted him back in again. That’s it, that’s the best thing we’ve done in a looooong time.

      The dodgy bastard is/was just as corrupt as the obese orange paedo but had the mental capacity to hide it better.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Make open protocols instead of apps!

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    • tatann@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You mean like Matrix ?

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      • pfr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        XMPP FTW

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  • theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why wouldn’t you want the government to know every time you breath? What are trying to hide? /s

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You know you can stand up your own Matrix-Synapse server as part of your home lab, its the “we have Telegram at home” answer.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So that’s why they wanted out of the EU.

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  • sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’re like kids trying to damn up the stream in the forest. They’re all enthusiastic at the start and then they realise the power of water and quickly give up. Still, for a few moments, it gives them a sense of control.

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  • detren@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Completely off-topic but that article has the wildest transition to a segment selling you stuff in the “best VPN list” part I’ve ever seen.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why is ##aside.hawk-root in no blocklist yet?

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