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After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch to a foundation model based in Switzerland.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's so dumb. The community has practically begged them to change their jurisdiction over concerns something like this could happen for many many months. Unfortunately the guys over at OPTF (now STF) never listened. I hope that's a mistake they won't repeat again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And people keep saying that the country of jurisdiction doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

In fairness, no one who understands how Laws actually work says that. Problem is that most people just do not care.

I got people saying I was silly paying a bit more for when I wanted to use some VPS boxes located in not 14 eyes countries.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've never seen a single human being in the privacy community say this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seen in times to times saying the service and company is way more important

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Session team claimed this when defending the security of their app and network, even in the face of the Australian government passing laws that allow them to backdoor any local tech companies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)