Granted, the part
The globally recommended app by privacy and security experts, Signal, is now being downloaded massively and tops the Danish Google Play Store
is a little ironic, but you gotta push this winning tide and then work from that.
I am from Denmark. I have spent the last 10 years fighting to get schools and government institutions to switch away from American software.
What a waste of time, when all it takes is the threat of an imperialist take-over of Greenland to actually get my fellow countrymen to finally listen and act.
Italian in Denmark here.
I thank you so much for this! I am amazed at the dependence of all facets of social life and information on Meta and Google’s properties.
I am cut out of my building’s initiatives because I don’t have a Facebook account. There are no events (such as dance events, protests, etc) published anywhere else than on Facebook’s Events.
When I propose to be contacted on Signal people look at me as if I was an alien.
You are doing God’s work, as a Christian would say.
Are they switching in the hope they’ll get added to a group chat planning the invasion?
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Nope, signal.
Kinda ironic that if the danish representatives in the EU got their way with chat control, danish people wouldn’t even be able to install signal (officially at least), since Signal said they would leave the EU in such a case.
If only the threat didn’t (also) come from inside the house when it comes to privacy. I don’t want my national police to have full access to my chats at all times any more than I want the USians to have that access, possibly even less. FBI or CIA isn’t going to personally bust down my front door, arrest me and seize all my computing devices because I called a local politician a dick.
Unfortunately Threema the European alternative that’s at least as secure as Signal costs money - and that one time fee is enough to send everyone to Signal.
It’s also not open source.
But as far as I understand, for e2e programs that doesnt matter as long as the client is open-source, isn’t it?
As much as I praise Threema… it frankly sucks compared to the alternatives. Delayed message delivery, sometimes no notifications, somehow dated looking Ui…
Imagine EU sponsoring a messaging app as part of public infrastructure.
Great Idea. It will probably be called ChatControlsEU and every message is archived and data mined at the Bavarian police departments Palantir instance.
Especially as there are open source alternatives such as matrix
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Several of good free peer to peer options. We need to completely move away from centralized servers. This list is dated, as there’s many new excellent options out there. It would be cool to see a multi client protocol.
Welcome to the club!
