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Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine by blibble on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @04:49PM (#45431044)
signal is open source, so they'll just download the source, build it, add a backdoor and push it to the app store

same as that weird official USgov version hosted by israel

Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine by missedthecue on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @04:51PM (#45431078)
Sometimes I wonder who builds this stuff. I appreciate at the end of the day that everyone has bills, but I feel like I'd rather apply for public housing before I work on that. They're not even getting rich, just a wagie. I have never met someone in the tech industry that was ideologically anti-privacy. It's always the lawyers and politicians. But someone builds it.
Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine by blibble on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @04:55PM (#45431118)
> Sometimes I wonder who builds this stuff.

the "secure" chat app supplied by some rando israeli company to the US government?

have a guess

Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine by missedthecue on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @07:09PM (#45432398)
Talking more in reference to EU initiatives
Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine by LordDragonfang on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @06:08PM (#45431826)
Signal is AGPL licensed, so they would have to publish whatever crude hack they insert in order to install that back door. (not the keys, of course, but if they're this incompetent about tech legislation, I don't trust their QA competence to be top notch)