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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not really that hard to deploy a matrix server. So this bill is dumb as anyone who wants encrypted messages can easily have them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm all for Matrix, but the things is, Matrix is primarily developed by people in the UK. They will be easily forced to implement backdoors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s good to know🙏

Hopefully some trustworthy third party can audit the code if this ever becomes a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure auditing would be enough. We would literally need a development team outside of dictatoric countries like the UK, where such things can be forced.