I would think that the “small country” has its own policy with services like Signal. Doesn’t the EU have it’s own policy that covers all EU members? California has it’s own grip on privacy policies too.
May 12, 2025 — EU member states are divided. Spain wants to ban encryption entirely, leaked documents show. Sweden has advocated for a proposal that would… (click the link above)
Any way, if a high ranking politician with a finger close to the nuclear button, can share Top Secret stuff TWICE, what is there that says Signal is end to end?
What ever, privacy is being ripped off every day - one way or the other - if average users want privacy these days, lick a stamp.
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If you are not being targeted specifically, it is pretty solid. It requires so much more effort to surveil all snail mail content as compared with surveilling all internet traffic.
Also, while your snail mail will still leak metadata, a ban on encryption may not extend as far as snail mail. So you could encrypt your snail mail content.
scan | tesseract | decrypt
metaphorically speaking.
If you don’t mind occasional lost “packets” then your snail mail metadata can even exclude the sender, which is slightly better than internet traffic.
> Like you all feel safe and your family chat got synced… by your Phones A.I.
Came across this a little late, searching for current signal status on liberm5 - I’ll comment anyway
This is like global threats like supervolcano eruptions, nuclear war, etc. where “some finite probability per unit time inevitably adds up to certainty“.
But quoting David Deutsch (the idea if not the words), writing in that context: all that’s required to avoid that is for the infinite series to sum to less than one, as plenty of infinite series do.
its about the sum. Most are fine with signal because its a high level private messanger. But i do not like it because more and more readers and friends and family or groups have access to it through most not trustworthy devices. Because we do not use it as personal E2E chat, and end up with reading 10+ Folks reading chat rooms on 8/10 unsupported Android and Apple Devices and store the chat on some Jeff Bezos device with American access…
So use it to be in touch with friends and family but do not have important info on it.
