Comment on Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users

• Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s technically not impossible, it would just get rid if the entire point of E2EE, which is mentioned in WhatsApp’s response:

  if implemented as written, could empower Ofcom to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services, nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all users

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  • drbluefall@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …this would make E2EE effectively meaningless, because no amount of encryption will protect against getting scanned at the entrance and exit.

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    • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And then some incompetent contractor will put the backdoor key onto their GitHub and completely destroy everyone’s privacy

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    • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      AND it would probably break laws in other countries that actually value privacy or security. It’s not like they’d be making a UK-only client for every fucking app or device that uses encrypted communications

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    • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah exactly, it’s very, very stupid and not something any service that actually bothered to enable E2EE in the first place would ever seriously consider.

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