 Those who were scandalised by @element selling encrypted @matrix communications services to cops, and suggesting XMPP as a replacement, you might be interested to know that... "Conversations_im seems to be doing its job at the German Federal Police." 2 comments
But strategically speaking, the best way to fight laws mandating encryption backdoors, is for the cops to be relying on the same common encryption protocols and software to secure their own communications that we use for ours. This kind of strategy has a long tradition in Free Code software. A lot of privacy software has been funded by the OTF (eg TOR), which gets its money from the US federal government. The US NSA started SELinux, etc, etc. (3/3) |
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I totally understand the antipathy to the cops, believe me. I've been manhandled by them a fair few times, and people I know have had bones broken by them. Here's a video of one occasion when that happened:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H2yA2cKfvzA
(apologies for the ThemTube link, Goggle appear to be successfully blocking all Piped and Invidious instances right now. Also youtube.dl, so I can't even download the video and put it up on PeerTube. If anyone can manage that...)
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