Signal app boss threatens to withdraw from Europe
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The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
  • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    23 days ago

    You won’t be able to install those apps soon after Android bans sideloading of apps that aren’t signed, or bans sideloading of apps that are not from the playstore itself.

    What then?

    • ISOmorph@feddit.org
      142·
      23 days ago

      I don’t think privacy enthusiasts use vanilla Android. People will stick to Lineage/Graphene for as long as it works and then switch to something like Postmarket. It’s already in a state where it’s rough but usable.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10·
        23 days ago

        Europe: Companies can’t lock down your operating system.

        Also Europe: Companies must force back doors into their operating systems.

        I wonder how long those two things can coexist.

        • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
          7·
          23 days ago

          Well, Google’s current behaviour is already putting the future existence of F-Droid into question.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            31·
            23 days ago

            We need FOSS phones badly and in numbers that manufacturing isn’t horrible. That is until our governments force carriers not to connect them.

            If I could find a reasonably priced 8" Linux tablet, I’d sell my phone and buy a cellular wifi AP.

      • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        Yes, but not everyone they want to talk to will go through that effort. It’s already hard enough to convince someone to download another messaging app that they will only use with you.