Sweden. It seems the government wants a backdoor for @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social reiterates Signal would leave a market rather than compromise security & privacy. This is a growing issue. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... - ThreadSky

privacymatters.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Sweden. It seems the government wants a backdoor for @signal.org

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social reiterates Signal would leave a market rather than compromise security & privacy.

This is a growing issue.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/signal-lamnar-sverige-om-regeringens-forslag-pa-datalagring-klubbas

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carighan.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean to a degree I don't blame the government. If your country has laws under which say, the police can open your mail, then it makes sense at some point someone has to sit down and figure out how to do this for digital communication.

I don't agree it should be done, of course. 😑

stevesmithtech.bsky.social•8 days ago

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social

you're doing the right thing in a bad situation

phill.hallambaker.com•8 days ago

1/ Shutting down the service isn't a solution.

We need to design and deploy a service that can't be shut down.

I have been working on a standards based approach to binding JSContact data to a DNS Handle as is used on Blue Sky.

phill.hallambaker.com•8 days ago

2/ The code as it stands allows a person to add their Signal account to their JSContact and thus allow people to start end-to-end encrypted Signal chat from capable apps.

With minor modification to Signal, this would enable end-to-end trust as well.

phill.hallambaker.com•8 days ago

3/ People can put as many messaging schemes in their contact including open service schemes offering end-to-end trust like Mesh direct service addresses.

Mesh messaging doesn't have a fixed service provider, you choose it yourself, you can switch at any time, you can be your own service provider.

phill.hallambaker.com•8 days ago

4/ I am going to keep on working on my own thing with the security properties I think we need. But I would much prefer it if Signal was willing to take the issue seriously and make the modifications to make their service backdoor proof.

trudheim.bsky.social•7 days ago

What irks me more than anything is that the politicians that want backdoors have zero f...ing clue how the technology works and zero inclination to learn.

Backdoors will *never* be used by only "the good guys".

patriksjogren.bsky.social•9 days ago

Everyone who knows anything about encryption or IT knows that it's a terrible idea to add "backdoors" or store transmissions centrally for later decryption...

ahart.dev•9 days ago

Yes, let's backdoor the app mandated by Sweden's military. Great idea. https://cornucopia.se/2025/02/forsvarsmakten-infor-krav-pa-signal-for-samtal-och-meddelanden/

spid.bsky.social•7 days ago

That's not what that article says, the army is using Signal.
They have not asked for a backdoor. (That would be stupid)

ahart.dev•7 days ago

https://swedenherald.com/article/signals-ceo-then-were-leaving-sweden

"The Armed Forces, on the other hand, are negative and write in a letter to the government that the proposal cannot be realized "without introducing vulnerabilities and backdoors that can be exploited by third parties", reports SVT."

privacymatters.bsky.social•8 days ago

Quite https://cyberinsider.com/swedish-armed-forces-adopt-signal-for-secure-communications/

fabiomoreira.bsky.social•8 days ago

I say no to the backdoor

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