 📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding. Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities  39 comments
  @Mer__edith every EU citizen should contact their local MEP about this. even if encrypted messaging will be spared in the end, unencrypted messages or emails shouldn't be subject to mass surveilance! @tester1121 @Mer__edith Except that Matrix is not as secure as signal. IPFS would make file transfer more efficient so long as the encryption keys are transferred encrypted through the signal protocol so that it remains secure. @Mer__edith Now that more and more countries become right wing extremist safe grounds it is nice to know they now have mass surveillance at their fingertips. @Mer__edith It’s almost reassuring, in a way, that they keep trotting this out: it acts as a warrant canary letting us know the intelligence agencies haven’t broken encryption yet. Once they stop asking for it we should start asking questions ☺️ @Mer__edith Now THAT is what you call a fantastic press release. Team Signal is fabulous 👏 This is a good reminder to download versions of your favorite encryption tools like #Veracrypt while you still can. @Mer__edith Part of me wonders how long it's going to be before we build AI agents on Ollama that act as client interfaces for our social media and chat platforms, where personal conversations between two people thes agents turn it into normal dull text messages. Part of it will likely include having the agents discussing 'War and Piece' 'Dune' 'The Ring of Life', etc., that provide an overwhelming amount of content for the monitors to try to pick through when invading people's privacy.  @LukefromDC @Mer__edith Most people don’t know how to do stuff like this. Regular folks using WhatsApp will get surveiled and have their lives ruined by false positives. @LukefromDC @Mer__edith The problem is not only bypassing the monitoring and surveillance - the problem is BEING monitored; watched and classified. It changes behavior. It's not freedom. If you have to hide that you are communicating (encrypted or not) the game is over. It's not a government anymore. @LukefromDC @Mer__edith Yea, you're not wrong. @Mer__edith so will @signalapp stop collecting #PII like #PhoneNumbers and actively work towards making #compliance with such #cyberfacist demands impossible by truly #decentralizing and moving onto @torproject for it's infrastructure... If not, why?  @Mer__edith So what happens if we were to a string of 0s and 1s through text that, when compiled, encodes an image? This whole law is so silly from a technology regulation perspective. They need to show their code before they can pass the law that forces every provider to use their code... But also: How decentral can you go with Signal node hosting costs?  @Mer__edith What an embarrassing development. The #EU urgently needs to return to the core values of European societies. /cc @ton  Edward #Snowden reacted: EU apparatchiks aim to sneak a terrifying mass surveillance measure into law despite UNIVERSAL public opposition (no thinking person wants this) by INVENTING A NEW WORD for it—"upload moderation"—and hoping no one learns what it means until it's too late. Stop them, Europe!  @Mer__edith It honestly stuns me that Europe has forgotten STASI so quickly. Private communication between individuals is a fundamental requirement for democracy. @Mer__edith does bigstate in EU try to obtain what has been already obtained by bigstate un US/China via their control of bigtech? But we have to give up our rights! FOR SAFETY! We get fingered and groped by the TSA for our SAFETY! Give them euro 24 take away some freedoms and they will love you for it
https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/senator-gracchus-in-gladiator.jpg  @Mer__edith It's nothing but the same old surveillance tactics wrapped in a shiny new package. Whether they label it a backdoor, a front door, or disguise it as "upload moderation," this proposal is a direct threat to encryption. The audacity to push this under the false pretense of protecting children is beyond belief. The EU council must not let this pass. Our security and freedoms are at stake, and we must stand against this deception!   @Mer__edith And this shit is not going to go away until the institutional actors determined to enact it have been abolished. It'd be appropriate to abruptly and comprehensively and completely defund whatever EU agencies keep insisting on authoritarian social controls. |
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@Mer__edith I'm willing to bet either Blumenthal, Blackburn, or both keep advising whatever crazies keep proposing this, because every time similar legislation happens here their names are on it.