Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Signal threatens to leave France if encryption backdoor required | Computerworld

UPDATE: sanity prevailed!

One of these days this is going to actually have to happen before they pay attention; one of the few architectural benefits of Signal requiring a phone number to bootstrap an identity is that they can fairly easily block any account associated with a +33 or +44 international dial code:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3850597/signal-threatens-to-leave-france-if-encryption-backdoor-required.html

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2 responses to “Signal threatens to leave France if encryption backdoor required | Computerworld”

  1. Frederic Jacobs

    @alecm old news, it’s not happening in France

    https://mastodon.social/@fj/114199063213203519

    1. alecm

      Yep! My non-primary social feeds are all updated from the blog at two hourly intervals during working hours, so the update blog post will probably come out sometime on Monday morning

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