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Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill (www.theglobeandmail.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[+] -6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Maybe we should be looking at the larger picture here this is exactly why Signal or any other privately owned centralized messaging system can never be trusted. Stop using Signal or WhatsApp.

Look at alternatives like Matrix that are immune to this sort of thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    matrix is not immune to this lol

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Not trying to be a jerk, I just don't understand. If the government ordered matrix to put a backdoor into the code, couldn't we just install a version that doesn't have the backdoor? It's open source, someone is bound to fork it. So then the government's only option is to hunt down every matrix server in canada that doesn't have a backdoor and persecute the owner, which would be time and cost intensive but I guess possible. So at that point could we not just host the servers outside of Canada? What do they do in that case?

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