French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
The key is that, while there is suspicion (the people arrested have a far left ideology, have been to Syria to fight against the Islamic state, own weapons and encrypt all of their communications), there is <i>no crime nor proof of an intent to commit a crime</i>.<p>These people have been sent to prison because they are suspicious, not because of an action they have done (something made possible as a special case of an older antiterrorism law). And, amongst other things, using Signal and Linux with the encryption-on settings are <i>explicitly</i> listed as some of the things making them suspicious in the eyes of the law.<p>That is a slippery slope.