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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

submitted 11 months ago by seasonone@opidea.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] algorithmae@lemmy.one 37 points 11 months ago

Guess the UK better get used to seeing "We're sorry, [AppName] is no longer available on your country."

[-] orsetto@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

I don't know if meta or telegram cares enough about encryption to lose UK market

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Neither Telegram nor Facebook Messenger is E2E encrypted by default. Maybe they'd just disable the option for E2E encryption for both senders and recipients in the UK.

[-] sarchar@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

It's going to be terribly difficult to run two different apps on mobile app stores. If Telegram gives access to the UK government to backdoor eavesdrop then that essentially means its available in the entire app. Any app that does this means I'm not using it.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

This is the far more likely outcome. Or at least the app backend will be secure encryption and customer-to-customer chat and data will be backdoor-ed encryption.