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		immibis on July 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Signal president says company will not comply with... Oh, politicians' messages won't be scanned. They'll make sure of that. Only the peons will have their messages scanned. The French law that makes it legal for the government to hack your phone has a bunch of exceptions so it's not legal for the government to hack important people's phones.

zug_zug on July 15, 2023 | [–]

>> They'll make sure of that

No they won't. They'll never be sure if their data is secure.

https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-and-hundreds-of-german-p...

_2z1p on July 16, 2023 | | [–]

Absolutely, it'll be just like in 1984 where the elites of the party could turn their telescreens off.

vogon_laureate on July 16, 2023 | [–]

Parliamentarian’s emails are almost certainly scanned by GCHQ, as was revealed by Snowden years ago.

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