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Apple is likely to stop providing its encrypted cloud service to U.K. users

I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I’m also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    it’s also effectively tied to Google services due to the app distribution

    It’s been recently added to FDroid.

    and push notification channels

    You can use NTFY with Molly (which has been on FDroid for some time).

    network-level metadata monitoring by anyone with sufficient access/influence at Signal or their data center provider (such as a government who doesn’t like encrypted messaging).

    This one is just a straight-up lie. Everything on the server is encrypted and no one has the keys except the participants.