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?

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    11·
    9 hours ago

    No, probably not. They both speak the same protocol and talk to the same servers.

    Unless the block was a app store distribution restriction only

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
        4·
        8 hours ago

        It would be very weird if it was - when a “ban” happens, at least here, they block the website. I doubt Sweden would fight even basic Wireguard/OpenVPN tho, so I don’t see it as a big problem. The bigger problem would be carriers denying registration confirmation SMS, which is yet another downside of the phone number requirement.

      • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
        5·
        9 hours ago

        Even if it’s not Molly could implement Tor or any sort of bridge to bypass these restrictions (such as Signal themselves)

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
          2·
          8 hours ago

          Yes! Because unlike stock Signal (which, last time I tried, restricts you to their own proxy implementation), you can use whatever Socks proxy you want. Including Tor. Yeah, sure, you could use a VPN with Signal - but for people who want a persistent connection, having a VPN on 24/7 would be inconvenient. Such a frustrating part of the official app…

            • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
              2·
              5 hours ago

              Yeah, I know that - I am myself in a situation where we need increasingly obfuscated evasion solutions. However, my issue is not in that it developed such a proxy - but rather, that it doesn’t give an option to use a different one. For example, I have my proxy set up - so why does Signal need its own separate proxy rather than using the one everything else already uses? Why can’t it use Tor without torifying the whole device’s traffic?

              Not to mention that dedicated solutions (XRay and such) are focused on censorship evasion while for Signal stealthy proxies are comparatively more of an afterthought. So there is a chance it wouldn’t be able to evolve fast enough to keep up with the censors.

              P.S. I think in Iran, there was also a bigger issue - the SMS codes for registration just didn’t arrive.