I almost forgot the monthly “let’s make encryption illegal” from the EU.
EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!
Submitted 3 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/
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heavydust@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Pirata@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“let’s make encryption illegal”*
*for the peasantry, of course.
They love the idea of giving the political class an exception.
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s sad and against our supposed values. Who proposed this this time? Was it the same MP?
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
This comes from the Commission, not Parliament.
jim3692@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
My question is: even if EU manages to apply laws for backdooring encryption, wouldn’t cybercriminals just use different tools? They may force Signal to backdoor its encryption, but what about Briar? Will they backdoor the Tor network? Will they ban it entirely? What about Matrix? They can’t prevent offshore encrypted instances.
tfm@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Bingo! It’s simply surveillance of the masses.
Geodad@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Signal said they will jist pull out of any country that demands a back door.
Back doors don’t work. Just ask American telecom companies to talk about how easy it was to get Salt Typhoon out of their back door.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, means Signal would just not have a presence eg an office or local routing/CDN servers in the countries that demand backdoors.
It would mean slower service for anyone in such countries, but the service would not stop working or become less secure.
It’s negative either way, as it chips away at the legitimacy of private E2E chat, and legislators the world over seemed determined not to learn that there’s no such think as “backdoors, but just for the good guys”. You either have a resilient end-to-end zero trust encrypted system or you don’t.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
“the eu is becoming a bastion of privacy”
yeah my ass
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
She claimed that in “85 percent” of police cases, law enforcement couldn’t access the data it needed. The proposal is to amend the existing Cybersecurity Act to allow these changes. You can watch the response below.
That is complete and utter bullshit. And everyone knows it.
Cpo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
As long as there is opensource, good luck with that. Remember the export-restricted pgp?
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No but I recall GnuPG
Cpo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Exactly my point
BlaueHeiligenBlume@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I D I O T S. ANY backdoor WILL be exploited. Just a matter of time.
Pirata@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There really should be a law where the EU gets fined everytime they waste time bringing up the same proposal that has already been shut down multiple times.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not fined, just banned.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Porke nos los dos? (Or something, my Spanish is rusty)