Nicolas FournierMay 28
Em 

I am growing tired of governments who can't seem to understand how encryption works.

You *cannot* both have secure encryption and encryption with a backdoor (or "lawful" access). It's impossible.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/#magical-backdoor-only-for-the-good-guys-is-a-complete-fantasy

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Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

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Show threadErevanDBMay 28
@Em0nM4stodon I tried to tell someone this before, (albeit not very well), and got blocked. Some people just don't want to understand or learn, and I doubt the people who benefit from this will.
Show threadCyberFrogMay 28
@Em0nM4stodon I'm sure they understand the issue and just act willfully ignorant at this point honestly
Show threadpH_May 28
@Em0nM4stodon erm..just to clarify, do you mean the same one that was thinking about "hacking back"?
Show threadPerpetuum MobileMay 28
@Em0nM4stodon Technical solution is similar to sending an encrypted email to multiple recipients: encrypt message with symetric key, encrypt symmetric key: once with intended recipient public key, store it. Encrypt with "lawful interception" public key, store it. Question is, who will get access to backdoor private key besides police.
And of course it defeats the purpose of encryption.
Show threadj-r conlinMay 28

@Em0nM4stodon

We should tell them that one of the key components would be bullets that only kill bad guys.

Show threadVon XylofonMay 28
@Em0nM4stodon I think they understand full well. They just say the bit about security not to spook the majority of the population.
Show threadElias MårtensonMay 28

@Em0nM4stodon You can have encryption with backdoor access though. It just won't be secure.

What these people don't understand is why the 'secure' part is important.

To be honest, how do you explain that in an effective way? Especially if you barely get a sentence to do that pitch.

Show threadEm May 28
@loke Reading the linked article might help
Show threadElias MårtensonMay 28

@Em0nM4stodon Absolutely, but the people who push for these legislations are not going to read that article.

They are going to ask: 'can we add a backdoor to this?', and the answer is either: 'technically yes, but it won't be secure', which is the correct answer but they will only hear the 'yes' part.

Or, you can answer 'no, it's not possible'. But that answer doesn't capture exactly what it is that is impossible, and they'll just go to someone who can tell them 'yes'.

Show threadHeinzensteinMay 28

@Em0nM4stodon
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Show threadArnim Sommer 🇪🇺May 28
@Em0nM4stodon
You can have either doors or curtains.
Show threadIan TurtonMay 28
@Em0nM4stodon didn't we decide this back in the 1990s with the clipper chip?
Show threadJoe VinegarMay 28
@ianturton @Em0nM4stodon this (privacy), like any other human right, is not given (once it is even achieved). Instead, coming from an experience of rights enjoyment makes it *harder* to be conscious of its importance and of the need to actively defend it. Eventually it's easier to have it stolen.
Show threadbananamangodogMay 28
@Em0nM4stodon I'm growing tired of governments not understanding pretty much anything. Government and Dunning-Kruger are almost synonymous now.
Show threadOrca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️‍⚧️May 28
@Em0nM4stodon They're not ignorant. They just want it broken.
Show threadRosey Lesbiab   🇵🇸 May 28
@Em0nM4stodon can't wait until it is made a crime. Not gonna stop me tho
Show threadTFed 🍉🌻Jun 8
@Em0nM4stodon reminds me of "We wanna make sure that you are secure in our hands"