I don't even bother with VPN because nothing is private anyway, best not to have that illusion so not to give boldness to say things one would regret if others were watching.
It depends on who your adversary is - if the NSA want to spy on your whatsapp - they can do it by deploying a zero-day exploit on your iphone.
But weakening the encryption allows every third rate country (like saudi arabia and pakistan and London local politicians like Sadiq Khan) to monitor your speech for anything questioning Allah.
True, most attacks go around encryption rather than defeating it directly. OTOH, it seems not that unlikely that the NSA has a quantum computer that can trivialize all our encryption. If we figure it usually takes 10 or more years before stuff makes it from experimental government shit to the private sector, the private sector isn't that far off.
The private sector is at what, like 10^3 qubits? In order to trivialize all encryption you would need like 10^6. And I don't think it is reasonable to assume quantum computing will follow Moore's Law, but even if it did, I think it is still far enough away where I would be quite thoroughly surprised if anyone anywhere had even 10^5 qubits, let alone 10^6.
It can be used to circumvent geoblocking which allows people to watch pornography without an age verification database system in place and media conglomerates who do deals on a nation basis are lobbying to prevent people in one country seeing content from another that hasn't been paid for by the platform in that original country.
I believe the rationale for an outright ban was to prevent circumvention of the proposed law and it wouldn't apply to corporate VPN use as they have their own policies on Internet usage and strictly enforce them.
I don't have a use for these apps so DYOR, but this one appears good because of certain features, like being able to delete a sent message on the recipient's phone, so signup info required, messages are deleted on their servers as soon as its sent (or so they claim. Again, DYOR), and a lot more.
I assume Apple’s iMessage agreed to go along with the UK’s retarded 1984 mass surveillance plan?
Seems safe to assume that anybody who doesn't exit the market will have agreed to the government's terms.
Would be incredibly naive to assume any mainstream messaging app didn't already agree to that years ago.
NSA spied on Tucker Carlson's signal.
I don't even bother with VPN because nothing is private anyway, best not to have that illusion so not to give boldness to say things one would regret if others were watching.
It depends on who your adversary is - if the NSA want to spy on your whatsapp - they can do it by deploying a zero-day exploit on your iphone.
But weakening the encryption allows every third rate country (like saudi arabia and pakistan and London local politicians like Sadiq Khan) to monitor your speech for anything questioning Allah.
True, most attacks go around encryption rather than defeating it directly. OTOH, it seems not that unlikely that the NSA has a quantum computer that can trivialize all our encryption. If we figure it usually takes 10 or more years before stuff makes it from experimental government shit to the private sector, the private sector isn't that far off.
The private sector is at what, like 10^3 qubits? In order to trivialize all encryption you would need like 10^6. And I don't think it is reasonable to assume quantum computing will follow Moore's Law, but even if it did, I think it is still far enough away where I would be quite thoroughly surprised if anyone anywhere had even 10^5 qubits, let alone 10^6.
You sound like you know better than me.
Makes you wonder why the UK wants to ban it. Although I could believe their version is pathetic just like their military.
It can be used to circumvent geoblocking which allows people to watch pornography without an age verification database system in place and media conglomerates who do deals on a nation basis are lobbying to prevent people in one country seeing content from another that hasn't been paid for by the platform in that original country.
I believe the rationale for an outright ban was to prevent circumvention of the proposed law and it wouldn't apply to corporate VPN use as they have their own policies on Internet usage and strictly enforce them.
Shouldn't Proton VPN be good enough for that? It's free. I bet they share IP logs with the government, but I doubt they care about torrents.
WhatsApp and Signal: 'you don't pay enough and/or you're secret police isn't as terrifying.'
Converso seems to blow all of these away judging by their features (check link below and scroll down to their comparison with other apps).
Here's a link: https://conversoapp.com/
I don't have a use for these apps so DYOR, but this one appears good because of certain features, like being able to delete a sent message on the recipient's phone, so signup info required, messages are deleted on their servers as soon as its sent (or so they claim. Again, DYOR), and a lot more.
There is literally no such thing as a backdoor that only the government can access.
Signal is owned by Jack Dorsey, so...I'm calling BS. Also, WhatsApp is Meta Platforms, double BS on this one.