138

Crackdown on open source E2EE apps in India (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Ritsu4Life@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Is it just me, or the government of India is cracking down of all end to end encryption apps like signal and element.

Cause I guy who works for the police came to my house and asked whether I use signal and element

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Signal in contrast has the option to hide your phone number and only expose a username to the public.

don't worry, the app of all participants knows all the numbers, they just dont show them on the UI. a patched app will show them just as well

https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-upcoming-android-7-0-release/59024/51

the feature got implemented in this commit: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/bb30535afb79c8570fc7aa75b56d03892be6b70f

this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025

138 points (95.4% liked)

Privacy

32627 readers

1250 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS