OTTAWA — Virtual private network service NordVPN warned on Friday it could pull out of Canada over the federal government’s proposed lawful access bill. NordVPN said in a social media post it is reviewing the bill and would consider leaving Canada if the bill requires it to compromise its privacy protections. The company said if […]

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  • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    132·
    10 hours ago

    I found this statement from the article confusing

    “Signal isn’t headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is”

    Bill sounds awful

    The bill would also require electronic service providers to develop and maintain the technical capabilities necessary to enable police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to effectively obtain communications and information for investigations. The bill would prohibit a provider from disclosing the existence or content of a ministerial order.

    Ugh.

    I prob believe that Canada would not go full DPRK with this. But that’s not the point! Point is, there’s no such thing as a backdoor for only good guys. Backdoors impact everyone. We already saw this here in the US in 1994 iwth CALEA. That was infiltrated by hostile foreign govs to gain broad surveilence inside US telecom networks.

    And they didn’t have to hack anything, because the US government insists that all networking gear ship pre-hacked so that cops can get into it.

    On top of that! Once you agree to build backdoors for a gov like Canada that mostly respects human rights… now the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world will demand the same access. It is dangerous to normalize ways to bypass encryption.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
      9·
      10 hours ago

      The statement you found confusing… was a quote from WindScribe VPN.

      They’re saying that since they’re a Canadian company, they can’t just avoid cooperation by denying service to Canadians — this affects their global operations.