Comment on Encryption versus Child Safety: Westminster Blinks
peter@feddit.uk 1 year agoThey want to do client side scanning which technically keeps E2E encryption but basically destroys the principle behind it. Today it’s CSAM, tomorrow its terrorism related phrases, next year its “anti-government sentiment”
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Which won’t affect the majority of people at all. Which is how they get away with it.
The people who do care will just move to safer alternatives.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Literally. I believe most criminals aren’t using WhatsApp. Moreso some weird thing called “EncroChat”
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Exactly.
But you do hear a lot about Facebook groups for it and shit. I’m guessing many of them are just stupid as fuck.
Which I guess is the target of this.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
If they’re that stupid can’t they just have people infiltrate the group like they do with encrochat