Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch to a foundation model based in Switzerland.
Linton said that last year the Australian Federal Police (AFP) visited a Session employee at their home in the country. “There was no warrant used or meeting organised, they just went into their apartment complex and knocked on their front door,” Linton said. The AFP asked about the Session app and company
But why
Worth pointing out our feds recently dismantled a criminal syndicate centred around an encrypted comms app. Stuff like that is on their radar and has been for a minute for imo, pretty obvious reasons.
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While you certainly are entitled to your opinion, I think 404media is one of the rare “good guys” I would be willing to provide a masked email to AND expect to not be harassed repeatedly
Lol. Lmao, even.
yeah, hard disagree, 404 are the best outlet in the tech game at the moment
Encrypted chat app founds itself in a Five Eyes country, is shocked that law enforcement shows up and threatens them if they don't provide user data.
Like yes, that was incredibly predictable and why Session was always questionably secure, because well, it was headquartered somewhere that's probably not a location you'd want to use if you were trying to make an actually trust-able communications platform.
law enforcement shows up and threatens them
They didn't threaten the company, they threatened an employee... at their home... kinda different.
Well yeah, that's how that works.
They show up at 6AM (or whenever it's still dark), bang on the door, and have 10 or so armed men standing on your front door.
The goal is to scare the fuck out of your employee and hope they start babbling and give them enough that can be used to flip into a more specific warrant to go after a bigger fish, repeat.
The cops do this because, of course, a bunch of men with guns at your house in the dark is exactly the kind of thing that makes people lose their ability to behave rationally and so it's self-incrimination time. (Don't ever talk to cops, ever.)
Straight up jackboot intimidation nonsense.
They moved to Switzerland due to the reasons listed here.
L Australia