cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60408809
Additionally, the Commission envisions expanding Europol’s role, effectively transforming it into a European equivalent of the FBI, with enhanced operational capabilities.
Granting Europol the ability to access encrypted data can only mean one thing: Brussels is proposing some form of government-mandated backdoor for communication platforms protected by end-to-end encryption.
Again?
Well it is a day ending in “y”.
ANY backdoor WILL get exploited. Just a matter of time.
that’s the point, to secure itself against $enemy-nation the state will first secure itself against the citizenry, by having a way of compromising citizens security on demand
ultimately governnment only cares that IT can exploit the mechanism, not that other actors cannot do so via the same mechanism
strip away all the obfuscation layers (there are so many lol) and thats pretty much the extent of the thought process of natsec orgs. you’re the threat. its an utterly retarded mind virus thats infected them we can all agree, but from an individual’s standpoint we can only protest and hope to shame the policymakers into a constructive course of action
This is so fucking stupid. Major crime organizations and governments can easily afford non-commercial encrypted communications. This will only be used to spy on citizens.
Exactly. Introducing vulnerabilities to everyone means that foreign powers will be able to use it to spy on EU citizens as well. Fucking bananas.
Maybe that’s the goal. Overall you don’t know who is lobbying the idea. You only see the press information.
Normal people can too, you can run an xmpp server on a fucking potato.
and that’s how you’ll become a criminal
Don’t host it on clearnet :p
Also it depends don’t their definition of what a platform is, they might only be targeting commercial operations.
Maybe that’s the point? Maybe less stupid and more nefarious?
Are they not learning from the U.S.??
Your government can, and will, eventually turn against you. Under no circumstances should more power be given to it to compromise your privacy.
Data from now will be used against you or your children 30, 50, 80 years from now by another fascist government. Don’t let that happen at an even broader scale
Are they not learning from the U.S.??
that’s exactly what they are doing
How about a giant “fuck no”?
Don’t worry fellas, we promise only good guys will use the back door. The bad guys promised not to use it
It’s way less expensive for state-sponsored hackers to blackmail your country’s official to leak backdoor keys than try to break the unbreakable crypto using a nuclear-powered GPU farm.
L after L in EU. Yesterday it was butchering GDPR, today it’s putting backdoors in end to end encryption. What is next? The normal people can only take so much before they start burning shit and poking holes with pitchforks.
“normal” people understand nothing about this though
At least they make it a public debate. The US has no problem doing it anyway, on own citizens on citizens from abroad…
Not speaking of the companies themselves selling your data to anyone and everyone for the highest bid 😂 You might think as long as your name is not attached it is meta data, but give it a thought, what 2 or 3 fields of metadata would you need to identify you. Home address, work address, age, employer, ethnicity, gender, family status, your typical routes, your preferences in every category of goods and services based on online behaviour. They sell it all….
And we care about our governments potentially looking into it… I would start by blocking Meta platforms, TikTok and others to send any of our data outside of our jurisdictions. I would stress to host the data in European datacenters.
L take Europe.
