Submitted 3 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/60408809
Additionally, the Commission envisions expanding Europol’s role, effectively transforming it into a European equivalent of the FBI, with enhanced operational capabilities.
Granting Europol the ability to access encrypted data can only mean one thing: Brussels is proposing some form of government-mandated backdoor for communication platforms protected by end-to-end encryption.
How about a giant “fuck no”?
Don’t worry fellas, we promise only good guys will use the back door. The bad guys promised not to use it
It’s way less expensive for state-sponsored hackers to blackmail your country’s official to leak backdoor keys than try to break the unbreakable crypto using a nuclear-powered GPU farm.
Are they not learning from the U.S.??
Your government can, and will, eventually turn against you. Under no circumstances should more power be given to it to compromise your privacy.
Data from now will be used against you or your children 30, 50, 80 years from now by another fascist government. Don’t let that happen at an even broader scale
Are they not learning from the U.S.??
that’s exactly what they are doing
L after L in EU. Yesterday it was butchering GDPR, today it’s putting backdoors in end to end encryption. What is next? The normal people can only take so much before they start burning shit and poking holes with pitchforks.
“normal” people understand nothing about this though
ANY backdoor WILL get exploited. Just a matter of time.
that’s the point, to secure itself against $enemy-nation the state will first secure itself against the citizenry, by crippling its security
strip away all the obfuscation layers and thats pretty much the extent of the thought process of natsec orgs
L take Europe.
At least they make it a public debate. The US has no problem doing it anyway, on own citizens on citizens from abroad…
Not speaking of the companies themselves selling your data to anyone and everyone for the highest bid 😂 You might think as long as your name is not attached it is meta data, but give it a thought, what 2 or 3 fields of metadata would you need to identify you. Home address, work address, age, employer, ethnicity, gender, family status, your typical routes, your preferences in every category of goods and services based on online behaviour. They sell it all….
And we care about our governments potentially looking into it… I would start by blocking Meta platforms, TikTok and others to send any of our data outside of our jurisdictions. I would stress to host the data in European datacenters.
Again?
Well it is a day ending in “y”.
ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
This is so fucking stupid. Major crime organizations and governments can easily afford non-commercial encrypted communications. This will only be used to spy on citizens.
overload@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Exactly. Introducing vulnerabilities to everyone means that foreign powers will be able to use it to spy on RU citizens as well. Fucking bananas.
vane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe that’s the goal. Overall you don’t know who is lobbying the idea. You only see the press information.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Normal people can too, you can run an xmpp server on a fucking potato.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
and that’s his you’ll become a criminal
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Maybe that’s the point? Maybe less stupid and more nefarious?