The European government has spent a few years trying to break encryption. The results have been, at best, mixed. Of course, the EU government claims it’s not actually interested in breaking encryption. Instead, it hides its intentions behind phrases like “client-side scanning” and “chat control.” But it all just means the same thing: purposefully weakening or breaking encryption to allow the government to monitor communications.
We need to make you more vulnerable in order to keep you safe.
“OUR government would never abuse surveillance powers, trust me bro!”
From the perspective of a systems analyst and admin here on p.d:
to me this looks like a poor attempt by some instance admins trying to harvest their user’s data by requiring a backdoor to everyone’s computer
news like this makes me sad and tired cause it’s blatantly apparent that some users still don’t understand why trust and consent is important
Ah, that things they’ll do to “keep you safe.”
This could never be misused… No possible way.
Trust us. It’s for your own good.
It’s okay everybody understands computers now. I mean, they must because they use them all day every day right. So this will obviously not be a problem.
