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Crackdown on open source E2EE apps in India
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
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So I looked into India and found quite a lot of attacks, that the Indian Government deems to be "Terrorism".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_India
I mean look at the long list.
Government is getting paranoid and have justification to starting to deem "encryption" as "suspicious activity". It would be easy to use these "terrorist attacks" to convince the legislature and the population that this is necessary.
I just read an article on reddit that a foreigner having a Garmin InReach satellite messenger got arrested and interrogated for several hours for "not having a license". https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/hiking-and-backpacking/india-garmin-inreach/
Not saying its right, it is what is is.