The defence against this is widespread truly peer to peer messaging services, where there is no company at the middle to tell you add backdoors.

Who is working on that? I suspect the main challenge is not technical, but human - persuading users to switch messenger apps is almost impossible.

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betaby 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The defence against this is widespread truly peer to peer messaging services

Spain would label you criminal for merely using alternative Android builds: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crim...

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attila-lendvai 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Simplex

https://simplex.chat/

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inigyou 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Session was recently shut down due to lack of funding.

True P2P implies knowing the IP addresses of the people you're talking to.

	▲	Stagnant 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Session was supposed to be shut down at start of July but looks like they got enough funding from donations to keep going for now.

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dabber21 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not P2P but Delta Chat

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hsuduebc2 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or you can just host your own server like IRC. This is beyond idiotic, if they think that pedophiles will begin to suddenly use WhatsApp then I very much doubt about their basic literacy.

Such a weak reasoning and method which they used to push this is ridiculous agenda lead me to strongly suspect there must be something else behind it.