• According to Whittaker, the bill requires the encrypted messaging app Signal to install so-called backdoors in the software.
  • athairmor@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The proposed law would require messaging apps to store copies of user messages.

    The law isn’t targeted at users directly. It’s targeted at the service providers. If the cops can access your phone you’re already screwed.

    Blocking Signal traffic might be theoretically feasible but it would be a game of whack-a-mole. Legally, Signal might have to stop serving IPs in Sweden but that’s Sweden’s problem and VPNs exist.