Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users
cross-posted from: piefed.ca/c/canada/p/727265/si…
Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be forced to weaken the privacy protections it has built its reputation on. In an interview with The Globe and Mail
Signal to Ottawa: We’ll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users | iPhone in Canada
Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government's proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country.Austin Blake (iPhone in Canada)
neon_nova
in reply to floofloof • • •sekurious
in reply to neon_nova • • •Rat_in_a_hat
in reply to sekurious • • •funkforager
in reply to neon_nova • • •Em Adespoton
in reply to funkforager • • •Am I the only one who has app store accounts for multiple regions?
But actually, if this happens (and it won’t, at least this time), the next bill to go through would have to be for the right to sideload. Because all of the politicians use Signal and would need a way to install it.
Delilah
in reply to funkforager • • •akilou
in reply to Delilah • • •Redjard
in reply to akilou • • •Installing an apk, installing directly, ...
As opposed to installing from Fdroid, from gplay, ...
You can also go by source, like with the stores. For example Signal android can be installed from their website (by downloading an apk).
Waraugh
in reply to Delilah • • •quick_snail
in reply to funkforager • • •Or people could just install it from fdroid.
Oh wait, signal isn't FOSS so it isn't allowed on fdroid.
Donn
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in reply to TiredTiger • • •theherk
in reply to quick_snail • • •GitHub - signalapp/Signal-Android: A private messenger for Android.
GitHubquick_snail
in reply to theherk • • •Lol no.
Download the apk. It includes that AGPL and also non free blobs. Just because part of if is Foss does not make if foss
theherk
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in reply to egsaqmojz • • •Rat_in_a_hat
in reply to asdfasdfasdf • • •Signal mentioned that their apps were best for security and a web browser had too many vulnerabilities that they couldn't guarantee.
They prefer to manage their own apps - a signal desktop app being one of them.
MonkderVierte
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in reply to funkforager • • •SirEDCaLot
in reply to neon_nova • • •This is one of the things that bugs me.
If you're in Country A, with all your operations in Country A, and what you do is legal in Country A, why should you give a single fuck about Country B's laws?
Seems to me the appropriate answer is basically to do what The Pirate Bay did with DMCA notices- respond that your laws don't apply to us as we have nothing to do with your country, and if your citizens use our software that's between you and them. It's not our job to enforce your laws on your citizens.
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in reply to floofloof • • •racoon
in reply to floofloof • • •I still dream of a keyboard that encrypts all messages regardless of the application being used. Like you type and then select the message, a pop up menu lets you encrypt the message using the code that you have chosen with somebody.
The other person receives the message directly unscrambled otherwise this implementation is DOA
RVGamer06
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in reply to racoon • • •racoon
in reply to NotMyOldRedditName • • •NotMyOldRedditName
in reply to racoon • • •A computer was anyway. These services arent necessarily reading our messages personally, but the algorithms parse them for ad placements or whatever, and it probably got flagged as being unreadable.
Edit: Some services that arent intending to be secure chat might not like the idea of encrypted content on their system either. What is it? What are they now harboring which wasn't their intent at all? Like if you made a lemmy community and only had encrypted messages on it, a mod from the server might have something to say about it.
MonkderVierte
in reply to NotMyOldRedditName • • •the_strange
in reply to racoon • • •OpenKeychain has an implementation like this (not 100%) maybe that fits your use case?
openkeychain.org/
OpenKeychain · OpenKeychain
www.openkeychain.orgdaniskarma
in reply to racoon • • •Look up oversec.io
It basically uses android accessibility features to both encrypt and decrypt messages.
☭ghodawalaaman☭
in reply to daniskarma • • •daniskarma
in reply to ☭ghodawalaaman☭ • • •github.com/oversecio/oversec
It was last updated 7 years ago.
So it's open source but outdated.
GitHub - oversecio/oversec
GitHubCodeAssembler
in reply to racoon • • •It is a bit tedious but works:
fdroid.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid…
Edit: Just saw that the last update was 3 years ago, just keep that in mind. I think for some situations it is still useful and can be used, as the encryption and key-exchange seems to be solid.
KryptEY | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
fdroid.gitlab.iodltk
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