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[โ€“] tmjaea 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on signal? They have a open source codebase without any back door?!

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yes you're correct. Signal would have to be forced to make a back door for the UK gov under this proposal. This is why they, with several others, are threatening to stop providing services in the UK should this pass.