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"Now"? Apps like Signals are constantly under fire. Whitaker already told the whole EU it would just leave if they introduced the "chat control" legislation.

you will be punished with negative numbers!

Thanks for making me chuckle.

How dare you go against the lemmy hive mind. We need to shit on Proton or you will be punished with negative numbers!

Sci-fi writing in here I see

EDIT:

For the downvoters:

• He clearly didn't support Trump in general, but he did praise Trump's pick for the antitrust position.

• Proton code for the clients is opensource, so it's not possible to add backdoors without being discovered (encryption happens in the clients).

• Proton business model is inherently disincentivizing them to do so. They are a profitable company with a clear profile that would lose so many customers if they decide to do so.

• Proton is incorporated in Switzerland, it's unclear what the benefit would be to "appease" Trump.

• Proton is controlled by a nonprofit. In the board of this nonprofit there are people like Carissa Veliz (author of "Privacy is power") and Tim Berners Lee. So even if Andy Yen was a full on MAGA, he still wouldn't have autonomy to decide that. Note that he ceded control himself.

• There is absolutely nothing in the history of Proton that suggests they would be open to backdooring their software.

• There is a long track record of choices to protect users' privacy. This also includes yearly substantial donations to nonprofits who work in this space.

If this is not enough, I don't know what is, but for sure the baseless accusations of a random user shouldn't be enough as well.

And gobbles Trump's knob publicly.

They won't need a law to force compliance.

Proton is a company claiming to operate under Swiss law (which is doubtful,as the company itself is US based).

Sadly Swiss data privacy laws are shit and it's intelligence agencies are known for overreach, especially when it comes to cross border data traffic.

Proton is swiss

And now it starts. Programs specifically designed to be encrypted getting attacked.

Nice PR move, but when do you announce leaving the US, which is the much bigger issue right now?

Meanwhile, the Swedish Armed Forces recently decided to use Signal for secure communication: https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2025/02/forsvarsmakten-anvander-appen-signal-for-oppen-kommunikation-med-mobiltelefoner/

There needs to be a messaging app which provides a backdoor for every government that requests it. Every time some dumbass legislator asks for a super-giga-secure-backdoor they promise not to misuse, they should be directed to that app.

Is this law broad enough to also catch up Proton and its services?

This attack by governments on encryption is getting more and more concerning.