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France is about to amend a bill against drug trafficking, the “Narcotrafic” law,
Oh, that’s original. In the US, the rationale has traditionally been child molesters and terrorists.
Don’t know how this could be the worst when Sweden is literally trying to do the same. Signal messenger threatens to leave the country if they install backdoors in their app. Even the Swedish Armed Forces is flagging that this might be a bad idea since they are using Signal. But we also have other interesting privacy laws such as the “FRA-law” that enables the government to listen to all incoming and outgoing data to and from Sweden.
Great article but is there a petition to sign?
Or anything else I could do?
it will be funny when they will impose those backdoors to Matrix… France like Germany use Matrix for their diplomatic communication. If they add these backdoor to the project, it will be like: “Hey world! You know this very strong and very secured app we use to discuss important geopolitic matters that could trigger wars around the globe? Well, because we are soooo stupid, you can access it too… All our most top secrets message at your fingertip… Have fun!”
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it will be funny when they will impose those backdoors to Matrix
How do you even impose backdoors onto an open source service that can be hosted decentralized?
by saying “accept this MR or we will ban any app using your code”… :/
Yes, but when I am running my own server, what can force me to build a binary that contains the backdoor?
1.5 Millions Euros if you are caught :/
Yeah, I’mma have to see that before I believe that. Otherwise I’d drop anonymous hints left and right for every single bit of IoT that runs against an MQTT or XMPP server hosted and forgotten somewhere back in 2018. That backlash would shake them awake.
I had no idea they used Matrix. That’s beyond hilarious. Surely they’ll just make an exception for themselves or something.
Sounds like it’s called “Tchap”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
In April 2018, the French Government announced plans to create their own instant messaging tool.[26] Work on the application based on Riot and Matrix protocol—called Tchap [fr] after French scientist Claude Chappe—had started in early 2018,[27] and the program was open-sourced and released on iOS and Android in April 2019.[28]
The Tchap project created a new open source encrypted communication tool for French public agents in order to improve information dissemination and ensure the security of the French government communication network.
At present, only agents of the central administration can create an account on Tchap, but the code source of the application is available for anyone under an open source license. Gradually, its use will be extended to all members of the French administrations, including regional and local administrations. According to Jérôme Ploquin, Tchap Project Manager at the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM), the French administration wanted to “deploy a messaging service which is secure and contains the professional features adapted to the work of a professional organisation or a public administration”.
As far as I know from working in one of those administrations previously, the adoption of Tchap failed because of the bad UX around key exchange and people went back to Microsoft Teams. I couldn’t find any recent news about it in the French news. I would be curious to hear about someone using Tchap today.
I think deploying this backdoored version without publishing the code for it would violate elements new agpl
Well, we already did basically that quite successfully in the past. Wikipedia.org – Operation Rubicon
Looks like I will have to move away from tedomum.net
I wish I’d known about them earlier. Their services look awesome. Are there any alternatives that you know about?
How long will it take until we reach the surveillance like in 1984? 5 years? 10 years? What’s going on everywhere?
We’re past what 1984 could even imagine.
1984 was a great book, but its Brave New World that captures the current state of things a bit better. The main difference being that in Brave New World people welcome the technologies as conveniences, ignoring the implications until it’s too late.
That has already begun, we are at least 10 years in.
If we’re going to have the Brave New World, at least let me have my soma and orgy-porgies. This version sucks.
Capitalism is failing and the world is tightening it’s grip on the masses. They know an upheaval is imminent.
They know an upheaval is imminent, so they tamp down more … making an upheaval even more imminent.
Hence the rise of the far right.
Probably about 10+ years…
…ago.
It’s already 1984 when you shop at Walmart.
