š£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 āupload moderationā it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities
This is a good reminder to download versions of your favorite encryption tools like #Veracrypt while you still can.
VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.
Meredith Whittaker
Mayor of Nerdocrumbesia š”