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>Previously secure end-to-end encrypted messenger services such as Whatsapp or Signal would be forced to install a backdoor. Isn’t Signal FOSS? I don’t know ho
by jimbob45 5y ago
>Previously secure end-to-end encrypted messenger services such as Whatsapp or Signal would be forced to install a backdoor.
Isn’t Signal FOSS? I don’t know how they’d police that when everyone can just fork it and remove the back door. Also don’t VPNs circumvent this legislation as well? How will they police self-hosted email servers?
I know the response to these questions is usually “You’re right, this is what happens when the techno-illiterate write laws” but I genuinely can’t think of how I would go about doing this if I was the one who wanted a back door.
- soziawa 5y ago> Isn’t Signal FOSS? I don’t know how they’d police that when everyone can just fork it and remove the back door. If the goal is large scale surveillance, it can be combatted fairly effectively as has been shown with e.g. kino.to and other streaming sites which have gone practivally extinct. The same would happen to websites hosting illegal apps. If the goal is to go after real criminals this is of course useless. But EncroChat [1] has shown that at least large parts of the criminal world don't seem to have great operation security practices. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat