The EU wants to decrease reliance on American technology. Here’s what happened when a POLITICO reporter tried to live and work without it.

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    5 days ago

    The issue with Signal is that it is US-based.

    If Trump learns he can break it, he will consider it.

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      4 days ago

      True, but Signal is quite clear they’ll leave the US if necessary. (And Mark ‘privacy-is-dead’ Zuckerberg on the other hand, is quite clear his highest priority is to fulfill all trumps wishes)

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        4 days ago

        Do you really think they cannot find a way to take over Signal, if they really want?

        Thet seem to already control the Supreme Court, wouldn’t be suprised to see them take over Signal at some point.

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          2 days ago

          So what solution are you proposing? And by that I don’t mean things that ‘the market’ or something similar would, in an ideal world, sort out for us, but measures that individuals can take today?

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            2 days ago

            Use decentralised communication.

            https://joinjabber.org/

            Nobody has full control over all emails or phone calls in the whole world, this should also be the case for messaging.

            Avoid single points of failure. A decentralised system cannot be broken, even if all countries agreed to fight it, it would likely still continue to exist.

            If a single provider closes shop, the rest continues to exist.

            We need resilient infrastructure, especially in these troubling times.