cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54163653
The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.
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I’m interested if Signal will pull out of the region, stand up to the authoritarians or fold and do as they ask
Session is a fork of Signal that doesn’t require phone numbers.
Basically no longer fork since 2020, has own protocol now. https://getsession.org/introducing-the-session-protocol
Too bad that whenever I’ve tried it, its eaten my battery
How the fuck does that work with practically all of these having desktop apps? Can apps safely tell them difference between eSims and physical sims?
“For web and desktop applications like WhatsApp Web, the directive provides for additional measures: users must be automatically logged out after six hours at the latest and re-authenticate via QR code”
My WhatsApp number is from a SIM I lost (for non-payment) about 5 years ago, so far the phone company didn’t recycle the number so I’m still using it :P
that’s a ticking time bomb if i ever seen one
I missed that part, oh no that’s awful
E-sim should work
Meta/facebook forced it by bribing the officials in india.
Grand total of ₹5 bribe, neatly partners with the other surveillance apps the government is already forcing onto phones with gov ID verification app for everywhere you go on top.