JuggoSep 30, 2025
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat-control-back-menu-eu-it-still-must-be-stopped-0
Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed since it was first introduced in 2022, keeps being mildly...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Show threadMidgePhotoSep 30, 2025
@eff Trusting an intermediary to encrypt and transmit messages seems risky.
Open Source encryption against the key(s) of the recipient(s) before handing the message over seems a better risk.
Or sticking to plain text.
Show threadDaniel JonssonSep 30, 2025
@eff lol, not again... why do they never stop
Show threadJaime HerazoSep 30, 2025
@eff
For people in the EU wanting to do something, here's a tool to craft an email to send to your country's representatives, specially important for those living in an "Undecided" one like Germany, please take a bit and send it (maybe in your local language though, it only has a template in English):
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Show threadHowToPhilSep 30, 2025
@eff
Totally Unrelated Note: You can chat over SSH and the government can get fucked. Use ntalk/talk in a terminal, use a BBS over SSH, use IRC with tls or over SSH...
Show threadHowToPhilSep 30, 2025

@eff In fact, here's ytalk

https://www.tecmint.com/setup-secure-private-chat-server-with-ytalk-over-ssh/

How to Setup Secure Private Chat Server with Ytalk over SSH

This article, shows how to setup a private, encrypted and authenticated chat server with Ytalk over SSH for secure, password-less access into the chat server.

How to Setup Secure Private Chat Server with Ytalk over SSH
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Sep 30, 2025

@eff

My guess is that the people doing it mean well, but have no clue how the systems they are talking about actually work.