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Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill (techcrunch.com)
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Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill::Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, the organization that maintains the Signal messaging app, spoke about the U.K.'s controversial new privacy bill at TC Disrupt 2023.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://signal.miraheze.org/wiki/Secure_Value_Recovery

The master key is stored. At the very least somebody with the master key could be able to engage your contacts, without getting a new key warning.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Per that link, the encrypted master key is stored.