Over 500 of the world’s leading cryptographers, security researchers, and scientists from 34 countries have today delivered a devastating verdict on the EU’s proposed “Chat Control” regulation. An open letter published this morning declares the plan to mass-scan private messages is “technically infeasible,” a “danger to democracy,” and will “completely undermine” the security and privacy of all European citizens.

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[–] 19 points 1 year ago

The EU Commission can get fucked, how often will they try to pull this shit?

If Hungary is for it, you can be sure that russia is for it, which is a guarantee that there is no safe version of chat control.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Jesus Christ, this is still a terrible idea. I'm not from the EU, how many countries have to vote against it to stop it? Is it still feasible?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Just need Germany to go against again, they were against a few weeks ago and changed to undecided for w/e fucking reason

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    it would even be enough for germany to abstain from voting. I don't understand that either btw, but i don't understand any nation which says yes to this bullshit, because the european court of justice has spoken very clear words when they judged that this crap is against human rights.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

    with this you can send emails to your representative.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The global shift rightward re: censorship and privacy really stresses me out

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Netanyahu is gleeful about the corrupt eu corporate politicians.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't think the danish politicians are corrupt. They're just dumbfucks.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Surprised to see the Spanish government in favour of this. Anybody know their reasons?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It sounds good on the surface.

    My biggest issue with this :

    1. are they going to make cryptography illegal? If not then they are not going to get anywhere. Will they make FOSS illegal? Device ownership? Math?

    2. Who is going to do the surveillance? The Yankees? Russians? Chinese? It is a free economy so basically a gigantic security hole.

    If someone actually knows the answers please help me understand how these issues are resolved.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nothing is good about it on surface.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Imagine if the politicians had a list of all pedophiles. Sounds good in theory.

    In reality they have the Epstein list, and protect everyone on the list.

    On the surface it sounds good - > reality is that it is a really bad idea.

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