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Re:Australia Encrypted Messaging Bill to Pass After Labor St... by CiPHPerCoder on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:04PM (#18621605)
Or they'll have the carriers in Australia push an OS update that specifically exfiltrates your Signal session keys to the government.

Then it won't matter what Signal does or doesn't do, they can still get what they want.

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Re:Australia Encrypted Messaging Bill to Pass After Labor St... by JoshTriplett on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:09PM (#18621646)
> Or they'll have the carriers in Australia push an OS update

One of many reasons you should not have your carrier control your OS update channel.

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