“Are you feeling encrypted?”
Does this work for drug dealers or just rich businesses executives‽
Submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141801/ftc-amazon-antitrust-signal-ephemeral-messaging-evidence
“Are you feeling encrypted?”
Does this work for drug dealers or just rich businesses executives‽
The realest criminals
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Brain@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
So are they using these trials in their crusade against encryption and having articles like this in hopes of turning the public against it? Because it looks like it to me.
Then a few paragraphs later they reveal Bezos has been an encryption fan and user of the service for 5+ years while trying to get others to use it… I get it, Amazon is doing shady shit, but this feels to me like the government is trying to get encryption frowned upon.
Clent@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When the government says to start preserving records, you start preserving records.
There is no need to pretend this is some government posture over secure messaging. This literally about the lack of saving those messages. How they were sent is irrelevant as long as a copy can be provided.
Brain@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I see.
I somehow misconstrued this line into thinking they had been using it for those 15 months and were then notified they weren’t supposed to. I screwed up there.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That is missing from every headline, and sub headline on this story wherever it is submitted.
Thank you for pointing it out .
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
US government is definitely against encryption, but there is a difference between using encryption/disappearing messages when you are not indicted and when you are indicted. First one is fine, second one is against the 18 U.S. Code § 1519 law.
beek@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Depends on when you started using it, when you were served with a notice to retain, and whether you used Signal to discuss content that falls under said notice.
Either way, encryption and/or auto-delete isn’t the enemy here.