Privacy@lemmy.mlbyNarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22

dontsurveil.me

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/

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    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.
    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 hours

      I’m not super plugged into Canadian politics. But for our friends to the north, I really hope this won’t pass. Wasn’t a similar bill voted down in the EU recently? Chat Control? So maybe there is hope for Canada too?

      It seems like it’s the same story everywhere.

      Some gov: “We shall require identity verification! We shall require encryption backdoors!”

      Randos: “Nah. We’ll VPN around that shit.”

      Gov: “Holy shit! Randos are VPNing! We must ban VPN!”

      Randos: “Holy shit! They’re banning VPN! We better find ways to circumvent that!”

      Gov: “Holy shit! Randos are circumventing our VPN ban! We better improve our VPN detection and blocking!”

      Randos: “Holy shit! They’re better at detecting VPN now… We better tunnel over HTTPS…”

      Round and round. Unfortunately, once the pain gets too high, it CAN be effective. Some countries went very far down this road already. It isn’t like 100.0000% effective. But it doesn’t have to be. Raise the tech bar enough. Make the legal risks too great. Eventually most ppl will give in. A handful will be super determined. But most won’t.

    • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3 hours

      Technofascists need to start being reminded that they’re little fucking nerds that are incredibly sheltered.

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3 hours

      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.

    • Skullz77@lemmy.world
      2 hours

      Luckily my MP is one of the good ones. That’s a nice website, makes it easy to contact your MP based on your postal code