European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal::Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all
“With this outstanding landmark judgment, the ‘client-side scanning’ surveillance on all smartphones proposed by the EU Commission in its chat control bill is clearly illegal,” said Breyer.
“It would destroy the protection of everyone instead of investigating suspects. EU governments will now have no choice but to remove the destruction of secure encryption from their position on this proposal – as well as the indiscriminate surveillance of private communications of the entire population!”
I hope he’s right, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Just the fact that they tried is a huge warning sign to me. This is the future they think we should live in.
And nobody gives a shit :(
Foucault was right. Civilization is just a fucked up sadomasochistic relationship. People want to be oppressed.
“They” in this case isn’t the entire EU tho. There’s a lot of different politicians there and Patrick Breyer, for example, was against this from the start. That’s probably also who I’ll vote for (or the Pirate Party, which he’s a part of, I don’t know how exactly voting works for the EU).
Politicians probably:
I speak American, so perhaps I missed a nuance, it the premise seems clear: it’s not encryption if Eve has the keys one way or another.
Laughs in Australian.
I wonder if Albo or Dutton will look at reversing the law change to force backdoors here?
= Press F for doubt.
Does signal have said backdoor here? Cos otherwuse wouldnt it be illegal?
Seems we good for now. I assumed if they broke signal i would have heard of it.
Just be aware that any software that has Australians working on it can be forced to include backdoors, and are not allowed to disclose it either