At last, some authority talking sense!
European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption
Submitted 9 months ago by drmoose@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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BlackPit@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’m violently against every attempt to try and weaken e2ee. In my mind doing so would be equivalent to telling people they’re no longer allowed to meet in private and have one on one discussions.
There’s just this one issue with this that causes some doubt for me. CSAM. Yes, think about the childer and so on, I know… This is however still a real issue that I have personally encountered multiple times. I use certain encrypted platforms to chat with strangers anonymously and there’s a significant userbase there spreading this content. And I don’t mean provocative instagram pics but the kind of content that leaves you with zero doubt about what you just saw.
Do we just accept this uncomfortable trade-off? Obviously there are other ways for these people to get caught aswell than monitoring their private discussions which in my mind is kind of even worse than what they’re doing (unless they’re creating that content aswell) but it’s just a fact that if the conversations truly are 100% secure then there’s nothing that’s going to stop this behaviour. I guess there’s nothing stopping them from meeting face to face and trading printed physical photos aswell but I don’t know… This feels different and I’m really struggling to figure out how I feel about that.
Huschke@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This argument always bothers me.
Do you really expect people that are involved with child pornography to go “Oh well, now that it’s forbidden to have private messaging I guess I will just stop looking at children, because the law is the law and I have to follow it.”?
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Encrypting files that can only be unencrypted by one other person is still a thing. Sure it’s not quite as convenient as it happening automatically in your chat app. However, anyone who thinks weakening e2ee in chat apps actually stops illegal actions occuring needs to think a bit more carefully.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Criminals will always find a way. Make a surveillance state, and they’ll just break the law and use encrypted communication anyway. Might even hide data in other data if necessary.
That said, I’d wager that there are quite a few of those communities hidden in plain and unencrypted sight (discord, fediverse, etc.), but they just keep it small enough to not be found (The ones on discord did get found out eventually, but probably just moved platform). So the question would aris: why do these exist when we apparently have the resources to monitor EVERYONE given the chance?
Best you can do is to report communities and places where it runs rampant to the relevant authorities. That’s much more efficient than the authorities having to make privacy-violating laws and crawl the net themselves.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 9 months ago
I’m violently against every attempt to try and weaken e2ee
“First i’m punching you in the face for trying and after that we talk about why it is a bad idea.”
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 9 months ago
and I’m really struggling to figure out how I feel about that.
Me being unsure about something is not an argument in one way or another.
Ihnivid@feddit.de 9 months ago
Except that’s not really the trade-off. There will still be means to secure communication and people who have an incentive to do so will go the extra mile to make sure they won’t be spied upon.
But we’ve opened
theanother door to spy on the general population, because average Joe won’t care.
mawss@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This seems to be AI-written news. First time I see such a thing, and am aware of it.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is a terrible article.
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Ppl are saying this is an AI article. Can someone confirm this?
Nobody@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Back doors enable bad actors to access everyone’s systems.
darkmatternoodlecow@programming.dev 9 months ago
Judgement is a valid spelling of the word.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They also stop State actors ahem UK (and obviously China, Russia and most authoritarian regimes)