Swedish government wants to get access to your encrypted messaging communication.
Exactly how are they thinking of doing that?
I am no tech specialist, even I have been online since early 1990s. I may very well miss something or be ignorant of some aspects, but..
OK, let's say Swedish government wants backdoors to messaging apps.
Signal refuses and leaves Sweden.
So, is the Swedish government going to demand that of everyone messaging app?
Signal, WhatsApp, etc, they are centralised, so could perhaps work.
But what about smaller, "unknown", decentralised messaging services? Like SimpleX? How are you going to get them to comply?
Or XMPP/Jabber with OMEMO encryption? That is a not an app, not even a messaging service, but a protocol, similar to email.
Do you think every developer of an XMPP app is going to comply? That is, if you are even capable of finding them? And that goes for the XMPP servers, as well. "Anyone" can set up an encrypted XMPP server.
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#signal #MessagingSecurity #chatcontrol #XMPP #backdoors
Exactly how are they thinking of doing that?
I am no tech specialist, even I have been online since early 1990s. I may very well miss something or be ignorant of some aspects, but..
OK, let's say Swedish government wants backdoors to messaging apps.
Signal refuses and leaves Sweden.
So, is the Swedish government going to demand that of everyone messaging app?
Signal, WhatsApp, etc, they are centralised, so could perhaps work.
But what about smaller, "unknown", decentralised messaging services? Like SimpleX? How are you going to get them to comply?
Or XMPP/Jabber with OMEMO encryption? That is a not an app, not even a messaging service, but a protocol, similar to email.
Do you think every developer of an XMPP app is going to comply? That is, if you are even capable of finding them? And that goes for the XMPP servers, as well. "Anyone" can set up an encrypted XMPP server.
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#signal #MessagingSecurity #chatcontrol #XMPP #backdoors
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Fox Trenton 🎱 •
Would that go for F-Droid too? You think that would work? Are you sure there won't be federated, free repositories around, beyond the clumsy reach of the Swedish government?
So, of course, there is an alternative: Installing governmental spyware in the root of your phone... and your computer OS, so iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows, Linux... all distros and forks of them? Tails, too? All the other alternative Android OSes, as well?
Let us say that finally the day arrives when every Swedish phone and computer has a mandatory governmental spyware monitor in them.
And all is safe, and no one can hide things from the Swedish state.
Then we only need to cross our fingers and hope that no bad guys will exploit that backdoor that is reserved for Swedish state actors only, to gain access to your browser, bank app, insurance app, personal correspondence...
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LukefromDC •
Even total control of the Internet won't stop disfavored media from spreading by flash drives and mesh networks. Remember: the first computer viruses were spread by infected floppy disks.
Machines backdoored by anyone (e.g carrier phones/phones that have not been de-googled) are banned from my life.