Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police (www.404media.co)
from 0x0@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 22 Oct 15:52
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qui@lemm.ee on 22 Oct 16:31 next collapse

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Fijxu@programming.dev on 22 Oct 16:31 next collapse

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0x0@programming.dev on 22 Oct 16:59 next collapse

Interesting. The .rss has the full article.

noodlejetski@lemm.ee on 22 Oct 17:48 collapse

are you a paid subscriber? because from what I’ve read, full articles via RSS were supposed to be a paid perk.

0x0@programming.dev on 22 Oct 17:54 collapse

Nope.

noodlejetski@lemm.ee on 22 Oct 18:23 collapse

I’ve just added 404 Media to my RSS reader, and it’s definitely not serving the entire article. this one ends at

“However, the overwhelming majority of people using tools like Session are everyday people who value privacy, and we believe this is true of those who are seeking an alternative to Telegram at the moment,” he added.

other articles similarly end somewhere halfway through compared to the website.

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 22 Oct 17:01 next collapse

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umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml on 22 Oct 22:22 collapse

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Tm12@lemmy.ca on 23 Oct 03:35 next collapse

While you certainly are entitled to your opinion, I think 404media is one of the rare “good guys” I would be willing to provide a masked email to AND expect to not be harassed repeatedly

PaellaVacuum@reddeet.com on 23 Oct 20:21 collapse

Lol. Lmao, even.

PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world on 23 Oct 09:24 collapse

yeah, hard disagree, 404 are the best outlet in the tech game at the moment

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business on 22 Oct 17:02 next collapse

Encrypted chat app founds itself in a Five Eyes country, is shocked that law enforcement shows up and threatens them if they don’t provide user data.

Like yes, that was incredibly predictable and why Session was always questionably secure, because well, it was headquartered somewhere that’s probably not a location you’d want to use if you were trying to make an actually trust-able communications platform.

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 22 Oct 17:14 next collapse

They moved to Switzerland due to the reasons listed here.

0x0@programming.dev on 22 Oct 17:58 collapse

law enforcement shows up and threatens them

They didn’t threaten the company, they threatened an employee… at their home… kinda different.

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business on 22 Oct 18:10 collapse

Well yeah, that’s how that works.

They show up at 6AM (or whenever it’s still dark), bang on the door, and have 10 or so armed men standing on your front door.

The goal is to scare the fuck out of your employee and hope they start babbling and give them enough that can be used to flip into a more specific warrant to go after a bigger fish, repeat.

The cops do this because, of course, a bunch of men with guns at your house in the dark is exactly the kind of thing that makes people lose their ability to behave rationally and so it’s self-incrimination time. (Don’t ever talk to cops, ever.)

Straight up jackboot intimidation nonsense.

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 22 Oct 17:04 collapse

Linton said that last year the Australian Federal Police (AFP) visited a Session employee at their home in the country. “There was no warrant used or meeting organised, they just went into their apartment complex and knocked on their front door,” Linton said. The AFP asked about the Session app and company

But why

CTDummy@lemm.ee on 23 Oct 02:09 collapse

Worth pointing out our feds recently dismantled a criminal syndicate centred around an encrypted comms app. Stuff like that is on their radar and has been for a minute for imo, pretty obvious reasons.