Signal lämnar Sverige om regeringens förslag på datalagring klubbas
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Den krypterade meddelandeappen Signal växer – nu använder till och med Försvarsmakten appen. Men regeringen vill tvinga bolaget att införa en teknisk bakdörr åt Polisen och Säpo. – Om det blir verklighet så lämnar vi Sverige, säger Signals chef Meredith Whittaker, i en exklusiv intervju med SVT.

Swedish government wants a back door in signal for police and ‘Säpo’ (Swedish federation that checks for spies)

Let’s say that this becomes a law and Signal decides to withdraw from Sweden as they clearly state that they won’t implement a back door; would a citizen within the country still be able to use and access Signals services? Assuming that google play services probably would remove the Signal app within Sweden (which I also don’t use)

I just want the government to go f*ck themselves, y’know?

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    2·
    8 hours ago

    The first one is pretty standard stuff, and it makes sense why you need to do it from the primary app and not from a third party one (like the camera). You would not want that other app digesting and sending off that invite link to the bowels of Google or whatever, which defeats the purpose of limited invites.

    The second one seems pretty easy to workaround. I agree that perhaps their (Facebook?) Messenger implementation should account for the tracking data they tack on, but I’d hardly consider that a deal breaker when you can copy the invite link by hand.

    I work in QA, and if I was a PM, I would flatly reject the first “flaw” as introducing weaknesses into the design and assign a low priority to the second due to an easy workaround and only affecting a single app.

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Good point re first one.

      Second one is a problem for most people. They just click on a link and expect it to work. They would have to figure out themselves what the workaround is because SimpleX says something like “bad invite” or “bad link”.

      And even if I told them what to do, they don’t even know it is possible to copy, paste, edit, hit return.

      I have about 30 activists using Signal whom I would like to migrate to SimpleX. I didn’t want to handhold each of them. I think you are overestimating general computer literacy out there.

      Similarly I would like to migrate over 600 of them from Facebook into our own group in Lemmy however they are older people and a third of them have enough problems signing up to and navigating Facebook.

      Adding to my frustration is their English illiteracy. “more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth- grade level.”