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I need more specifics on the UK’s planned ‘ghost protocol’ otherwise known as Eve or Mallory in the Alice and Bob cast of characters. What messenger apps will b
by liberia 4y ago
I need more specifics on the UK’s planned ‘ghost protocol’ otherwise known as Eve or Mallory in the Alice and Bob cast of characters. What messenger apps will be affected by this? Because if I was building a messenger app I would pull a Lavabit and disband it if coerced to put in back doors. Heard great things about Matrix/Element app. Is such an app impervious to back doors though? I mean the protocol is open source right? How do you back door something open source? WhatsApp can be considered to be unsafe to use, that I know, but what about alternatives like Cwtch, and things like Session?
- hkt 4y agoMatrix, xmpp, COI/delta chat will all be unaffected by this. They'll still be available through fdroid and probably the play store etc. What worries me is the criminalisation of the workarounds. Obligations on providers are one thing, but the UK already has a mandatory minimum sentence of two years for not surrendering keys when there's an order. Expanding that power would be terrible, and is, I suspect, not far away.