Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47296462

For now, your encrypted messages have a lock on them.

Only you, and the person you’re talking to, hold the key. Not the app. Not the company. Not the government. You probably don’t think about it. That’s the whole point — it just works.

Until, possibly, the end of this summer. Every messaging app in Canada would be required to build a second key.

With Bill C-22, the government would hold the copy. The lock you trust would no longer be a lock only you can open. It would be a lock the locksmith was ordered to duplicate.

Find and email your MP here to voice your opinion.

https://dontsurveil.me/c22/mp/

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    36·
    4 days ago

    For those of us not affected immediately by this, let’s fire up some i2p, tor and simplex routers in order to contribute.

    ip2

    tor

    As with tor, where you have the choice to run bridges if you are unable to contribute with a node/server that is vulnerable to identifying your person, simply installing i2p and letting it run is enough to contribute with bandwidth to the network, even if you’re not using it yourself.

    Edit: and for i2p, you don’t even need a public IP, as opposed to tor bridges.

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
      4·
      3 days ago

      I so want to like I2P, but it’s so difficult to do so.

      As an example, I set it up on my 100 MBPS fiber connection and it wanted to contribute like 300 KBPS with the automatic configuration and if I wanted to contribute more, I had to manually configure it up.

      I run my own Monero node as a tor hidden service, for example, and connecting with my phone to it over tor I get 5 MBPS. I tried an I2P Monero node from a person I trust, and was getting 40 KBPS. At 5MBPS, Monero is perfectly usable. At 40 KBPS, it is totally unusable.

      • dropdrip@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 days ago

        Ah yes, the classic: I want privacy, but I actually don’t, because it’s too inconvenient. There’s technical reasons why any network that prioritizes privacy will be slower than those that don’t. i2p has a technically superior model to tor’s onion network. It’s good software.

        • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
          3·
          2 days ago

          Um, no. I am perfectly happy to use 5 MBPS Tor Hidden Services. If I didn’t want privacy, I would just use the fucking clear net because it’s so much faster than Tor.