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Signal says it can't allow government access to users' chats
Last week, the Australian government passed the country's controversial Access and Assistance Bill 2018 into law, legislation that allows government agencies to demand access to encrypted communications. Companies that don't comply with the new law could face fines of up to AU$10 million ($7.3 million). A number of companies that stand to be affected have spoken out about the legislation, and Signal has now joined in, explaining that it won't be able to fulfill such requests if asked.
"By design, Signal does not have a record of your contacts, social graph, conversation list, location, user avatar, user profile name, group memberships, group titles or group avatars," Signal's Joshua Lund wrote in a blog post. "The end-to-end encrypted contents of every message and voice/video call are protected by keys that are entirely inaccessible to us." Lund added that Signal is open source, meaning anyone can "verify or examine the code for each release." "People often use Signal to share secrets with their friends, but we can't hide secrets in our software," he wrote. "We can't include a backdoor in Signal."
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday December 16 2018, @11:25PM (1 child)
In the case of France, it took awhile. The French still have vastly higher standards of living than I do in the US. In terms of pay, vacations, medical, etc. Or they did, and that's why the French are upset with income inequality and asymmetrically applied austerity measures. So at least with France, it's arguable. With the US I'm actually willing to concede that freedom largely died almost before the civil war. It certainly doesn't feel like the land of the free and the home of the brave when you have coal police murdering people for their rich employers.
Incorrect, sir. Many have made quite the effort through voting, but the voting is rigged, manipulated, or filled with intimidation. You seem to be alluding to so-called 3rd world countries, and many of those haven't actually experienced democracy, but instead a farce of democracy. When the voting is so far divested from the governments actions, and violence is regularly performed by the government against the populations, it's not that voters that have failed. It's government, and by government I refer to the collection of elite individuals no longer burdened by representative democracy, but instead pandering to monied interests and the powerful.
You see that most clearly, with democracy in start contrast to tyranny, in 3rd world countries, but don't be deceived for a second to believe that the US isn't also rigged by the powerful against the weak. Those voters in NC that had their votes stolen from them are at fault for their government? Even though so many laws existed simply to remove the right of voting from black people?
That, and voting has always been between a shit sandwich and a used douchenozzle. Only the rich can afford to run for office, and that's only recently changed through the advent of crowdfunding. Even still, it doesn't seem to matter who we vote on, the people always get fucked anyways.
If, and it seems when, the US crosses that final line to tyrannical government that needs to be overthrown, it won't be the voters at fault. Especially when the whole system is gamed and rigged.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday December 17 2018, @12:43AM
Many have made quite the effort through voting, but the voting is rigged, manipulated, or filled with intimidation.
Absolute nonsense. ~95% of the vote goes to the GOP/DNC every time. The "effort" is statistically invisible. Stop the blame passing! You're just reciting propaganda.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..