Matthew GreenIt is remarkable to think that only in the past 15-20 years have we moved most of our private communications to digital channels with centralized storage & the processing power to perform bulk scanning. Coincidentally that’s nearly as long as encrypted messaging has been around.
Many folks in law enforcement and politics seem genuinely confused about the popularity of end-to-end encrypted messaging, like we all just decided to become anarchists or something. That’s not at all the dynamic we’re seeing here. The entire basis of our communications infrastructure shifted in a direction that’s inimical to privacy; encryption is the obvious solution.
If you had the most cynical possible view of humanity and its governments, you’d expect government agencies to be making a *huge* push to end encryption right now; or at least adorn it with mass-scanning infrastructure. And sure enough, that’s exactly what we’re seeing all around the world. https://www.globalencryption.org/2023/04/statement-on-eu-us-cooperation-against-encryption/
Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption – Global Encryption Coalition
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee issued a statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption.
𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕤@matthew_d_green Gone are the days of quietly exploiting vulns/weaknesses and having NIST make it a recommended algo. Now, they just outright say they need to end encryption to thwart "terrorism" or "think of the children". And the "have nothing to hide" crowd will parrot what they're told.