▲ 508 ▼ Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill (www.theglobeandmail.com) submitted 2 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 37 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 4 points 2 months ago (1 child) matrix is not immune to this lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Arondeus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago Not trying to be a jerk, I just don't understand. If the government ordered matrix to put a backdoor into the code, couldn't we just install a version that doesn't have the backdoor? It's open source, someone is bound to fork it. So then the government's only option is to hunt down every matrix server in canada that doesn't have a backdoor and persecute the owner, which would be time and cost intensive but I guess possible. So at that point could we not just host the servers outside of Canada? What do they do in that case? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Arondeus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago Not trying to be a jerk, I just don't understand. If the government ordered matrix to put a backdoor into the code, couldn't we just install a version that doesn't have the backdoor? It's open source, someone is bound to fork it. So then the government's only option is to hunt down every matrix server in canada that doesn't have a backdoor and persecute the owner, which would be time and cost intensive but I guess possible. So at that point could we not just host the servers outside of Canada? What do they do in that case? permalink fedilink source parent