Only a day or two left to write to your MP and object to it.

This government actually does want to search your mail too. No joke. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mail-searches-seu-9.7180828

The thing is, anyone with nefarious intent will just use something else. Theres a zillion ways you could give someone an encrypted message.

Crazy, it’s almost like they treat us like inmates!

To make things easier please do not seal packages or envelopes for easier and more convenient access

Sealing packages and envelopes is now actionable with a limitation period of 10 years.

Hmmm they do? They’ve been opening mails ever since it exists and now they are mad because they can’t open emails? At least I would think so. I don’t think governments ever refrained from opening mails and packages if they felt like it.

They’ve threatened to for a lot of them, but I’m not actually sure if they’ve actually done so.

There’s a few countries that blocked signal, but I don’t know if signal has voluntarily pulled out of any country yet

For example, they’ve threatened to leave Canada, Sweden, and Australia so far from memory

I don’t know of any yet, but these “encryption is for crooks” laws all keep barely failing, so they have not had to yet, from what I’ve seen.

Pulling out is super easy. Just don’t release a compromised version of the app. Done.

If the app in its current form doesn’t comply with Canadian law, then the play store can’t legally distribute it. So, problem solved.

So basically Signal can pull out of Canada by doing nothing different than they’re already doing.

As for the users who already have the app installed, well that’s just too bad for the Canadian government isn’t it.

Probably the same way Imgur dealt with the UK age verification. If you’re from the UK, you are basically IP blocked from Imgur.

It’s possible Signal could stop distributing the app through the Play Store and Apple App Store within Canada. Signal is likely to shut off all servers they rent that are hosted inside of Canada at the very least.

In terms of them deactivating people’s accounts registered with Canadian numbers that seems less likely to me.

Even if they potentially blocked Canadian IP addresses, Signal already has support for proxies built in and those are ran by diverse people throughout the world. Some individuals host them.

This isn’t exactly the same since each situation with each country is different in terms of the law but Signal is banned in some countries such as Iran, Qatar, UAE and others already and people still use Signal by using Signal TLS proxies, VPNs, and other censorship circumvention tools such as Tor.

They didn’t deactivate accounts after being banned and they still allow phone number registration in those countries.

For Android people could download the apk file from Signal’s website instead of getting it from the Play Store at least.

https://signal.org/android/apk/

While we don’t know with certainty what they will do in each situation the past may be an indicator of what they will do to a large extent. But Signal has never pulled out of a country voluntarily before as far as I know so it is uncharted territory.

I think the intentional deactivation of current accounts is unlikely to happen in this case with Canada.

Possibly both. Signal will want to protect themselves legally.

Play store just checks what location you put in for Google account registration and shows the app or not. It’s the same for showing region locked movies.

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The point flew over your head so hard. People already use and can look into matrix and that makes this still bad.

matrix is not immune to this lol

Why is it a win, and for whom?