Monitored and secured are mutually exclusive.
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"The aim is to make people planning terrorist attacks in Austria feel less secure - and increase everyone else's sense of security," Joerg Leichtfried of the Social Democrats, the junior minister in charge of overseeing the Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN), told a news conference.
Paradoxon.
"That is why this decision by the cabinet today is an important milestone in the fight against terrorism and spying in Austria," he added.
What the fuck? You increase spying.
They'll never understand, or never admit yo understanding, that if you put a door in a wall, everyone will exploit it. Just think of how city defense worked before flight. Every invader would go after the gate and it was much, much easier to penetrate than the rest of the wall. But in this case that gate will be totally unguarded, so anyone who figures out how to open it, will open it for everyone. And will make tools for others to use to unlock and open it easily and it will be very difficult to change it if it's the same gate with the same key used by everyone. Imagine if door locks were all the same. No one would bother locking their doors if it was that easy to unlock instantly. And that's what the real goal is. To make people stop using security.
Will this affect Matrix? I use g24.at as my homeserver.
Probably. I think they may fine homeserver operators in the EU, maybe even raid their homes or jail them. But to me its unclear whether hosting it, or also using it will be a criminal offence.
Hopefully neither, and we can jail the real terrorists, those who want to get this implemented.
monitoring
secure messaging
It's not secure messaging if it can be monitored
well since majority of people won't be using signal and a custom ROM, they won't have to worry about the minority. Just hope people can see and fight back. Unfortunately, most don't care or think its a good thing for some reason.
I agree, but if they are not well versed in the digital world, most think they are safe in SMS until their conversations gets blasted in a court case. Honestly, I would rather they stay on SMS then try to move onto signal so the government doesn't have a reason to try to go after encrypted messengers. Just wish there were stronger laws in place to prevent this but of course we can't compete with billion of lobby dollars.
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