Signal lÀmnar Sverige om regeringens förslag pÄ datalagring klubbas
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Den krypterade meddelandeappen Signal vĂ€xer – nu anvĂ€nder till och med Försvarsmakten appen. Men regeringen vill tvinga bolaget att införa en teknisk bakdörr Ă„t Polisen och SĂ€po. – Om det blir verklighet sĂ„ lĂ€mnar vi Sverige, sĂ€ger Signals chef Meredith Whittaker, i en exklusiv intervju med SVT.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/56591279

Swedish government wants a back door in signal for police and ‘SĂ€po’ (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?

    • solo@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      They still have a tone of open-source stuff. It’s just that not everything is open-source anymore. Meaning, since everything is not public, we have no way of knowing if this private piece of software is what they say, or anything else actually.

      So, trust a company because they say they are not evil? I’ll pass

      From Signal Blog 01 Nov 2021:

      Improving first impressions on Signal

      We build Signal in the open, with publicly available source code for our applications and servers. To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private: a system for detecting and disrupting spam campaigns.

    • zmrl@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      There isn’t any proof that the app you download is built exactly from the source code on github. There could be an intermediate step to inject whatever they want before packaging it for the app stores.

      There’s also the conspiracy that Signal has been compromised since the beginning as they received initial funding from the CIA. Not sure exactly where I stand on this, but it is plausible.

      The protocol itself is open source though so someone could make an open source service with that.

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        There isn’t any proof that the app you download is built exactly from the source code on github.

        In principle, this statement holds for any app that you don’t compile yourself. As we’ve learned from the xz disaster last year, even the dource code versions on GitHub don’t have to match.

        There are at least two Signal versions: The official version, the one from the Guardian Project. For the latter I assume that they build from the publicly available source code. And then there is at least the fork Molly.