gtr comments on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog

[–] gtr@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Luckily software can be transmitted from anywhere in the world via a thing called "download", so the developer can be in another country that doesn't attempt to become a dystopian censorship state.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Doesn't it seem that countries are coordinating their surveillance laws these days? All of a sudden every government wants their citizens to submit ID when using the internet. All of a sudden every government decides that E2EE messaging is intolerable. All of a sudden every government decides something must be done about VPNs.

I used to read these stories and think "that sucks for people in the UK." But now I think it doesn't matter where each of these laws starts; every other country will do something similar soon.

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[–] ad3y@infosec.exchange 2 points 9 months ago

@floofloof @gtr If you were a crazy paranoid conspiracy theorist like me then you'd probably think it's being coordinated by a global group of rich and powerful families :D

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