📣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
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.
@Mer__edith Nobody is going to use the compliant apps. Instead, they will allow installing apps from "untrusted sources," download something like Signal(which will never allow backdoors) from servers not in the EU (since Google Play and Crapple will have to remove it or exit the EU market), and ignore this law. It would take effort on the scale of China's Great Firewall to prevent this and even that would leak, as does China's censorship.
If their ISP blocks the download, they will go to Tor or a VPN and bypass ISP filtering
@MisuseCase @Mer__edith Than it will be up to that to make this as accessable as we can and to broadcast information and warnings.
Those the government most wants to surveill will as always be the ones they miss. From organizers to underground direct action crews, from the best freedom fighters to the worst terrorists, they won't be able to read ANY of that traffic.
This will be like trying to prevent drones from delivering guns and drugs into prisons by monitoring the nearest airport.
In other words, the surveillance will hammer the civilian populace while completely missing its intended audience, same way IOF bombs do.
@MisuseCase @Mer__edith First step: In Android permissions you can with one "click" enable installing apps from one existing app. Got to settings->apps->Files (or whatever you have)->advanced/Install Unknown Apps and set to "allowed" and you can then install downloaded apps from the file manager.
In older versions, it was under "security" and would allow installing non-Google Play apps from any program on the device that could open them. This of course had the potential disadvantage of allowing silent installation of malware from the browser.
@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?
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/112636260519554561
@[email protected] @[email protected] so will #Signal stop requesting #PII like #PhoneNumbers and refuse to comply with such #cyberfacist demands. - If not, why? - If yes, how?
@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?
I understand the law says home-hosted servers are exempted from the law as long as they never touch state money?
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!
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.
Removing that capacity endangers democracy.
@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.
I have many complaints about my country, the USA, but the first amendment and fifth amendments give us some pretty good arguments against the EU's chat control proposal. Not to say we don't have boomers trying to undermine those rights as well and things like the Patriot act among others.
This is utterly embarrassing for the EU for the same country that created the GDPR. I know they have withdrawn the vote, but in my opinion it should have never even been a consideration.
@Mer__edith
How do I know their claims are a bunch of male cow faecal matter?
I found sites on the clear Internet containing CSAM. I attempted to report them to all of the relevant bodies - domain registrars, hosting providers, CDN providers and one notorious DDOS mitigation / CDN company which name rhymes with "loud snare", and government child exploitation organisation at the country the domain was registered at.
Crickets, evasion and pushback.
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If the EU politicians were serious about CSAM they would go after the low hanging fruit first, and then turn to the E2EE channels.
The fact that there are CSAM websites reachable on the clear-net and advertised through links in very public telegram groups shows what they really want, and CSAM is just the excuse.
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