Maybe we can all 'live without' private messaging?

Pay attention.

Denmark is set to take over the rotating EU Council presidency.

And is sending signals that they want to go after encryption.

Backdoors end badly.

Demanding backdoors isn't just surest way to chase away innovation...it's collective punishment for security services' own failures to adapt.

And the history of democracies is littered with states abusing secret surveillance powers to undermine core values.

Article: https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-crime-denmark-peter-hummelgaard-europe-privacy/

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Signal is not fully open source and thus impossible to decentralize. Hence there is a single entity to attack. Why not use keet instead.

Which part of Signal is not open source?

server

Agreed it's better if the server is open source, but as long as the client is open source and created the private key to sign the messages and client side encrypts the messages, there's little need to worry other than the Metadata that goes with it. When the message goes out, one needs to assume any relay or packet sniffer will attempt to read it, including the Signal server. But ideally everything is open source so we can see what it's doing with the metadata rather than trusting it.

their centralized server can be shut down with the stroke of a pen. even open sourcing signal server wont do much good either, because its not built to be decentralized. there are alternatives: https://simplex.chat

Agreed... One could install their own Signal server but that's not the future. I'm hoping Nostr can provide the same functionality soon so the migration can happen!

100% agree

2/ Today, our most intimate worlds and thoughts pass through our phones.

States forcing their way into these interactions for every citizen is the equivalent of putting a police camera and a microphone between everyones' pillows.

Then asking us to trust they'll will never look...

3/ Here's the thing: there's a global market for trustworthy privacy-respecting apps.

The secure messaging market alone is worth billions & growing.

If European leaders can move past the un-imaginative anti-encryption myopia...it is a natural place to incubate & innovate these industries.