Theoretically, yes. But if it's a legal entity that added it, they can easily circumvent any attempt to eradicate it. Or, in a more extreme way, criminalize FOSS chat apps altogether, then the code will have to be analyzed in a RE environment. Maybe the non FOSS server code is where the backdoor is added. There are so many relatively hidden ways to compromise a chat app's supply chain.
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Honestly, neither will I. No one should.
While I do love your optimism and appreciate the addition of this software to our (collective) arsenal, it absolutely can. Chat Control can force the developers to add back doors, for example, or to start log collection to include IPs and PSPs, etc. Please don't misunderstand, I'm not negating the benefits of Amnesichat at all. It's awesome. But, being a chat, it would still fall under the same regulatory nonsense as Briar, for example, which can also be run through Tor. Now, whether the developers adhere to Chat Control regulations, is another thing altogether.
Or Briar. Or Signal. Or so many others that have been audited throughput the years. While I appreciate the addition of Amnesichat to this arsenal, it has yet to be properly audited and is, therefore, not yet trusted.
Chat Control, if passed, will affect this chat as well. The only way to bypass it, would be chat revolution.
This is a very interesting use of this tech, as a countermeasure to the corpos' use of it. I appreciate the share!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
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And this tax needs to increase 25% every 6 months until it's no longer empty.
That's a fair point.
I agree completely with your comment. Including the rage at the end lol
I agree with you. I just don't think "they" will take that fact and just sit with it. I think "they" will do everything they can to get multiple backdoors in there (and I use the term 'backdoor' loosely to mean anything that can programmatically circumvent the encryption). There are more of them, in terms of power and funding, than there are of us. They will eventually succeed, if only for short times each interval. That's why I wrote that the solution is a chat revolution. I don't know what that will look like, but we need something they can't successfully attack.
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