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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.