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InnerScientist
lemmy.world

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

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CTDummyreply
lemm.ee

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.

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umami_wasabireply
lemmy.ml

One more step

Please complete the security check to access archive.ph

No thanks

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0x0reply
programming.dev

Interesting. The .rss has the full article.

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noodle (he/him)reply
lemm.ee

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

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noodle (he/him)reply
lemm.ee

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.

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Tm12reply
lemmy.ca

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

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schizo
forum.uncomfortable.business

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.

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0x0reply
programming.dev

law enforcement shows up and threatens them

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

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schizoreply
forum.uncomfortable.business

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.

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