Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police

Joseph Cox writing for 404 Media:

Linton also pointed to Australia’s recently enacted surveillance laws, and said “we felt Session was sufficiently secured because it is open source, decentralised, and we were just building privacy-focussed technology in good faith.” That changed after the country laid out plans to have service providers collect and store a certain amount of data on users.

I wonder how long encryption will be legal. With the recent leaked news about the UK telling Apple to install a back door into iCloud, governments are increasingly looking to get access to everyone’s personal communications and data.

Backdoors are never just accessible to the good guys, bad actors inevitably find them and use them.