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Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
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[–] 129 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bill C-22, which would allow for regulations requiring service providers to retain certain metadata for up to a year and develop capabilities in its systems for police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to obtain that information for investigations.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago*

    Almost every other week I get a email for "xyz company" saying the same thing.

    "Your data has been compromised because our network was accessed by a outside third party."

    I wonder how all this information stored by companies for over a year will now be protected, it will only benefit nefarious actors, scammers, and more then likely the company selling the data to third parties like ad agencies to regain costs of storage.

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    • [–] 30 points 5 months ago

    Signal is not weighting, Meredith clearly said that they are out if that shit passes

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    [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    What a fantastic way to create jobs in America...WAIT...WHAT!

    NEVERMIND.

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    [–] 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    This is why we need self-postable infrastructure, so that you can just operate and open Defiance of the law

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    may or may not fit the bill, but check out https://reticulum.network/.

    Description from their page:

    The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks.

    I've been trying it out and it feels a lot like the early web and there's a few cool projects building on top of the reticulum network:

    • Nomad Network: A terminal based program that provides multiple features.
    • Sideband: An Android/Linux/MacOS client that supports messaging, voice calls and various other features.
    • MeshChatX: A modern multi-platform client.
    • RetiBBS: A bulletin board system for the reticulum network.
    • Columba: A modern reticulum network messaging client for Android.

    If anyone happens to try it out, shoot me a message at 4187fa0d2254b521d243c42448e81206!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Hello random Lemming! Just wanted to thank you for this. I consider myself pretty well versed in tech and had not heard of Reticulum. More importantly, reading the docs it feels like I’m reading the writings of someone I agree with on a fundamental level - even about their departure from the public project.

    Going to give it a whirl.

    Again thanks

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    even about their departure from the public project.

    what do you mean by that?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    The note here makes it clear (link at the very top of the GitHub readme doc): https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/MIRROR.md

    The author intends to work at their pace, on their time, with no interaction with the public projects.

    Likely, and this is supposition, a small group of developers connected on the network itself will push the project forward where pushes are needed but they may not be.

    But also, the very rare and important consideration that, in their words, “Everything you need is right here, and by any sensible measure, it's done. Anyone who wants to invest the time, skill and persistence can build on it, or completely re-imagine it with different priorities.”

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    interesting. but they are still doing the project, just not reading the github issues.

    actually they even disabled the issues and the pull requests, which is unfortunate because earlier discussions also become inaccessible.

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    God this is fucked up. I can't believe Carney was the lesser of two evils.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Huh?

    If you break encryption, you break encryption, period. There is no in between. If you have a backdoor into encrypted communications, it's the end of everything in communications.

    You want to access your bank account? Well sone govt tech worker now has your banking credentials and he can simply transfer your money to some offshore account. What? YOU did it using YOUR credentials, so fuck you, your money is gone

    And that is about a best case scenario where these encryption backdoors aren't immediately hacked and broken. Once that happens, criminals can basically roam free and do whatever the fuck they want because you can't trust your encrypted communications anymore

    It's literally the dumbest idea that has survived for decades now because this comes back year after year after year after...

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Yes, but it is not 'only' some 'government tech worker' but anyone who exploits the vulnerability. I wrote that already in another thread: In 2024, U.S. officials urged U.S. citizens to use encrypted apps after China hacked into the U.S. ISP's wiretap systems.

    As the alert reads,

    ... we have identified that [China-]affiliated actors have compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies to enable the theft of customer call records data, the compromise of private communications of a limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in government or political activity, and the copying of certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders. We expect our understanding of these compromises to grow as the investigation continues ...

    This opens up the road for a lot of malign actors, at home and from abroad.

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    • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    More like awful access

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