Chat Control 2.0: EU set to approve end of private messaging, secure encryption
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So of course, because 99% of the dragnet is unpalatable to the voters it is being forced onto, the focus is on CSAM.
None of it is effective anyway, which is an open secret.
Israel for example has one of the most extensive intelligence gathering programs in their region and they missed a huge military buildup on their doorstep.
This technology is never used to help or protect people. Nobody forces through unpopular laws that cost billions of dollars to implement and utilise out of the goodness of their heart.
Laws like this exist to keep tabs on the poor so that they don’t have the means to organise against the rich and powerful. Look at how Cambridge Analytica used dragnet data collection to help unpopular politicians win elections.
This is what it’s about: power.
The power to listen in. The power to keep tabs on you. The power to destroy the reputation of upstart competitors to your power.
Yup. Slippery slope from terrorism & CSAM all the way down to littering.
Not to mention it has been routinely abused by police and spies to stalk girlfriends and other such egregious violations.
The EU is far more incompetent so expect this on a far broader scale.
This means you could not install Linux on computers, you must only install what the hardware lets you install, from some cryptographic chip.
Besides encryption, besides all else. This would lead to a world where whatever levels of control could be put on devices, they will.
- Iran phones won't let you install free communications apps. - Chinese phones won't let you install VPNs. - Indian phones will put a backdoor into your encryption PGP, so it can sign messages acting on your behalf, or DocuSign behalf.
This isn't talking about Apple phones that do not let you install software you want. This is saying there will be a MARKET restriction in the European Union, such that a free product IS NOT POSSIBLE.
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However there are truths:
1. Once hardware is published it cannot be changed on the fly. 2. Peer to peer protocols cannot be stopped.
As long as hardware is not locked, and people still can code, there is hope.
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...
It’s American scan software company and corrupted Swedish politicians lobbying this
Signal and Telegram do not have cash revenues from the EU, so they can be non-compliant.
Worse is if Apple and Android integrate these features directly to the operating system.
(Yes, it has an e2ee feature which you can turn on per chat if you remember, but nobody does this.)
Dude everyone minds that their _private_ correspondence is being read by prying eyes. Just because you’re technically inclined to do so [enable e2ee per chat] doesn’t mean that the lowest common denominator human is capable or willing to do so. Which is why secure by default - without state compromise a la Telegram & WhatsApp - is so important.
They have been rather quiet since. I wouldn't trust any of them to be "non-compliant".
How so? Don't Telegram Premium and Telegram Ads count as revenue?
The principle was derived from an interpretation of the European Court of Justice, which ruled that European law has priority over any contravening national law, including the constitution of a member state itself.