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.
And people keep saying that the country of jurisdiction doesn’t matter.
In fairness, no one who understands how Laws actually work says that. Problem is that most people just do not care.
I got people saying I was silly paying a bit more for when I wanted to use some VPS boxes located in not 14 eyes countries.
I’ve never seen a single human being in the privacy community say this.
The Session team claimed this when defending the security of their app and network, even in the face of the Australian government passing laws that allow them to backdoor any local tech companies
Well that’s retarded.
Seen in times to times saying the service and company is way more important
