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If encryption is banned, is there currently an open source, encrypted, pseudoanonymous chat app that Europeans could build and run themselves? Does Matrix quali
by logicchains 3y ago
If encryption is banned, is there currently an open source, encrypted, pseudoanonymous chat app that Europeans could build and run themselves? Does Matrix qualify?
- bushbaba 3y agoYou could just encrypt the text going over the “wire” things like a one time pad would likely be incredibly effective for most.
- Condition1952 3y agoThere used to be a website which would allow you to encrypt and decrypt data. I was expecting some kind of Firefox addon to implement this kind of encryption to regular messaging websites
- earnesti 3y agoThere are browser addons for pgp, for example. However none have gained big popularity.
- 7373737373 3y agoIt's a failure of browsers not to include identity/key management beyond usernames and passwords
- doublepg23 3y agoI believe PassKeys are fixing that.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoTheir next move in the politico-technological arms race is to pass a law that says the judge is allowed to assume you're guilty of whatever they're accusing you of if you're found to be in possession of encrypted data and refuse to decrypt it to prove your innocence. An encrypted drive? Looks like you're a drug trafficking money laundering child raping terrorist and it's off to the gulag with you.
- stracer 3y agoThe data may be saved as jpegs of kitten and puppies. There is no law against animal child porn, at least not yet, so there are ways...
- ratsmack 3y agoThis has already happened several times in the US. People have been put in jail until they disclose the password for their phone or encrypted data. Here is a list of countries compelled to reveal passwords to encrypted data by laws in force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
- matheusmoreira 3y agoThat's fucked up. I assumed the USA would be the last country on earth to do this.
- Tommstein 3y ago> That's fucked up. I assumed the USA would be the last country on earth to do this. Which it is. The person you responded to doesn't know what the hell they're talking about, and in fact most of the stuff in the "United States" subsection of the "Legislation by nation" section of their very own link they provided says as much, that the Fifth Amendment provides protection against such self-incrimination and that judges usually find as such.