Windscribe joins Signal in threatening Canada exit over controversial surveillance bill

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/windscribe-joins-signal-in-threatening-canada-exit-over-controversial-surveillance-bill

VPN provider Windscribe has warned it will relocate its headquarters if Canada passes the controversial Bill C-22. Joining secure messaging app Signal, the company says the proposed surveillance law threatens the "entire essence" of user privacy.

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wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe · 21 pts · 113d (9 replies)

How these demons keep getting elected

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 10 pts · 113d (5 replies)

Because Canadians want to strip themselves of their own rights&collective power? Otherwise they would have physically removed these politicians.

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 113d (4 replies)

Violence is not the answer... until it is.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 4 pts · 113d (3 replies)

Violence is the language of the state.
If Canadians understood this, they’d be properly communicating their demands, instead of facing the boot.

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 113d (2 replies)

Like I said, until it is

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 2 pts · 113d (1 reply)

So, everyday?

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 113d

No, of course not⁺

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NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Real power doesn't exchange hands at the ballot box. And to think it does is the most laughable a notion. But much investment goes into conditioning (a nicer word than brainwashing) people to subscribe to it.

Some contrarians take this too far and use the framing "Democracy is a lie". But the reality is, it's not necessarily a lie, but rather, it's just largely inconsequential when the brokenness exists at a higher level (the modern nation state itself, its establishment, and both their interconnections with inter and extra national powers). In that reality, the voting process is not a tool for the masses, but rather a tool to distract and contain them.

Consulting people, via voting or any other method, is still desirable of course, but only after that brokenness is taken care of.

mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org · 2 pts · 112d

The illusion of choice

0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 113d

Corporate funding, lobbying

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 113d

Oh yes Canada, please, I can't wait to get my bank account hacked and all my money stolen and suddenly have two mortgages and have zero recourse because officially I did it myself because the legal encryption backdoor that nobody could ever open was hacked and opened less than 24 hours after rollout of this bullshit

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 113d (4 replies)

Lol. Windscribe and Signal are both like the shittiest-yet-somewhat-popular solutions to their perspective problems

unglueclass23@programming.dev · 6 pts · 113d (1 reply)

what makes you say that about signal?

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 112d

Phone number and evil binary blob requirements

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 113d (1 reply)

What would for you be a secure messenger that is 100% anonymous, and is not about to fold (hello session, it was nice while it lasted)

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 112d

SimpleX is p good