@EvilCartyen Basically the idea is that, since they can't rely on backdooring encryption, they instead hope to have everyone bundle spyware in their chat/email/SoMe app:

> The EU Centre shall make available technologies that providers of hosting services and providers of interpersonal communications services may acquire, install and operate, free of charge, where relevant subject to reasonable licensing conditions, to execute detection orders in accordance with Article 10(1). [Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52022PC0209 Article 50(1)]

This spyware would operate on the client side after messages are decrypted rendering any and all encryption completely moot.

And, despite what others say, it would affect "providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services" (ctrl-f that in the source above, it's the first hit in a section numbered "(14)" but I don't know how to correctly reference it) regardless of how many users it has and if it's open source, libre, free (an in speech and/or as in beer) or not.

I don't know whether or not *you* would be violating EU law by using a non-spywared version of Mastodon, Matrix, etc., or if it'd be on whoever distributes it, but legislation such as this doesn't make sense if it's optional, so I figure it'll be one or the other.

As long as source code is available, we can always build our own stuff, but it'd be a hell of a dystopian future if it was illegal to do so.

German MEP (Pirate Party), Patrick Breyer, has some more details: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/