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As you know, governmental forces within the EU, the US, the UK, Russia and others are in a hot competition on who gets to be the first to subvert end-to-end encryption. A few days ago, we got another letter from Roskomnadzor, the #russia telco authority, to help them get at user data or metadata for #deltachat users. But there is no central registry of e-mail addresses, messages or decryption keys. So we declined. Sorry, not sorry.

A letter from merlinux GmbH to ROSKOMNADZOR Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications per e-mail: 97-fz@rkn.gov.ru Freiburg, June 13th 2024 Your request for registration of Delta Chat regarding provided services in Russia Dear Sirs and Madams, on June 11th 2024 we received your request by e-mail to delta@merlinux.eu to register for provided messaging services in Russia for the application Delta Chat whose developments we indeed facilitate and distribute to app stores and many platforms. If we understand your request correctly, you also requested access to decryption keys and access to user data. However, Delta Chat is an e-mail application which lets users choose their e-mail providers at their own discretion. There is no central registry of e-mail addresses and we have no access to message contents, let alone decryption keys which only exist on user devices. We therefore kindly request that you strike us from your list of service providers. best regards and thanks, holger krekel, managing director, merlinux GmbH
13 June at 8:43 | Open on chaos.social
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Astyage
Martin Be

@delta Thank you for giving them a middle finger. You're doing that very well. In the contrary to #Mozilla who complained recently to their similar demands.

13 June at 8:53 | Open on mastodon.social
Daniel Casanueva
Wandering Thinker
@delta Thanks for give so such the juicy "f*ck" to the cops and their vertukhai. 👍️
13 June at 9:30 | Open on libranet.de
:neocat__w: kbity...

@delta if they keep insisting, contact roskomsvoboda.org legal team, they are doing a great job fighting for net freedoms

13 June at 9:52 | Open on wetdry.world
xeniax ⏚

@delta yet another argument in favor of federated infrastructures 😊

13 June at 10:09 | Open on mastodon.ml
lvk

@delta perhaps this whole discussion needs to be ascended to 'is e2e messaging a human right' no?

Or at least being able to know who can eavesdrop in theory.
For example: I know that the maintainer of my go-to mastodon-instance can eavesdrop in theory, which is far better than a huge company.

13 June at 10:14 | Open on mastodon.online
WofWca
bijram

@delta but without reading all our private messages #EUGoingDark will happen - NOT

13 June at 10:28 | Open on graz.social
arutaz

@delta but what will you do when Chat Control becomes law in EU?
Leave the EU market? Still exist for people using android and f-droid or a like?

13 June at 11:13 | Open on social.sinnesro.se
Delta Chat

@arutaz first of all #chatcontrol needs to be prevented, and if that fails, to be aimed for cancellation at the European courts. Second, assuming it gets through, we will, all relevant parts of the ecosystem being Foss licensed, not be able to stop the proliferation of forks which will be nicely interoperable, thanks to DC being deeply based in the federated practises of the email and openpgp encryption systems. No central key server or messaging transport required.

13 June at 11:23 | Open on chaos.social
t3x
@delta

Роскомпозор продолжает копать под всё и вся.
Уроды.

#roskompozor #roskomnadzor #ru
13 June at 13:17 | Open on clubcyberia.co
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