• lysdexic@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    France wants backdoors into these apps, it’s not a lack of trust thing.

    If it’s trivial for a host nation to add backdoors to instant messaging services, you’d be agreeing with the government of France and you’d be pressing to migrate your communication out of the hand of third parties.

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      11 months ago

      I’m not a proponent of any backdoors like this. I use Signal because it puts privacy first.

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        11 months ago

        I’m not a proponent of any backdoors like this.

        I’m not sure you got the gist of what I said. The point I made was that if being the host nation of an organization meant that their government can add backdoors at will, using any foreign service would automatically mean you’d be snooped by external actors.

        Regardless of where you stand on whether you want to add your own backdoor or not, by your own logic using a foreign service means your services are already compromised.

        If that’s the case, wouldn’t it make sense to simply run your own stuff?

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          11 months ago

          I agree. The challenge in running your own stuff is adoption. Having my item chat platform is kind of outlets if no one else is willing to switch to it for me. That’s the same problem I have with Signal when I decided to stop using anything Meta owns.