Natanael

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/types-eu-law_en

Each country may still have the equivalent of a constitution, and the majority of EU laws are directives which the country may translate to fit their local law, also there’s various negotiated exceptions to EU laws. But the general idea is that the treaties establishing EU are meant to require full cooperation

Not unless turned into EU law, or a lawsuit over it reaches EU court. Individual countries can’t change the rules of the union on their own.

There’s already EU court precedence against mandatory backdoors

https://cdt.org/insights/the-european-court-of-human-rights-concludes-encryption-backdoor-mandates-violate-the-right-to-private-life-of-all-users-online/

Found the alt for swiftonsecurity

Technically only for non-classified internal communication. Classified stuff is restricted to be discussed only using military approved locked down hardware. But still, issuing a strong recommendation for Signal above all other options when communicating using regular devices is a good thing. Lots of “regular” conversations can still leak more than you expect through metadata, timing, etc, so they trust Signal to protect that

“yes”? He’s definitely not building any significant fraction himself, but if he didn’t care for these things he wouldn’t let the company put so much resources into them.

Credit for the things built goes to the people building them. Credit for it being possible to build goes to the people who founded and funded the teams