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The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Signal is open source, so no it will always be available without chat control. https://github.com/signalapp

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good luck setting up your own server and convincing everybody else to use that.

    Signal is not federated. It relies on a central server, meaning for all intends and purposes Signal controls the entire chain.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    End to end encrypted, I think chat control is all about client-side scanning so the app being open source is a big deal and would prevent client-side scanning because even if they build in client-side scanning, it's open source and people can remove it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Signal is pretty control freak-y, so would not be surprised if they can somehow prohibit third-party modifications entirely. That would be out-of-character for them, though, so doubt they would actually go through with this.

    Still, if that went through, I'd discount all the centralized solutions.

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