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[SWE] Swedish government wants a back door in Signal (www.svt.se)

submitted 1 day ago by Wolfie@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Swedish government wants a back door in signal for police and 'Säpo' (Swedish federation that checks for spies)

Let's say that this becomes a law and Signal decides to withdraw from Sweden as they clearly state that they won't implement a back door; would a citizen within the country still be able to use and access Signals services? Assuming that google play services probably would remove the Signal app within Sweden (which I also don't use)

I just want the government to go f*ck themselves, y'know?

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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Good point re first one.

Second one is a problem for most people. They just click on a link and expect it to work. They would have to figure out themselves what the workaround is because SimpleX says something like "bad invite" or "bad link".

And even if I told them what to do, they don't even know it is possible to copy, paste, edit, hit return.

I have about 30 activists using Signal whom I would like to migrate to SimpleX. I didn't want to handhold each of them. I think you are overestimating general computer literacy out there.

Similarly I would like to migrate over 600 of them from Facebook into our own group in Lemmy however they are older people and a third of them have enough problems signing up to and navigating Facebook.

Adding to my frustration is their English illiteracy. "more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth- grade level."

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago

You know, now you've got me wanting to try my hand at submitting a fix for your second issue.

So to summarize:

You copy or share a one-time contact link via SimpleX.
The sender sends it.
The receiver gets it.
The receiver clicks on the link, and Meta adds a bunch of extra tracking nonsense onto the link.
SimpleX throws an exception ("invalid link" or something, right?)

Is that how it goes, in your experience?