TutaChat Control 1.0 lets Big Tech scan ALL your messages. 👀
And the EU wants this to continue. Decision is this WEDNESDAY.
⚡ Call your MEPs now! ⚡
➡️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
Dr. Sundancer@Tutanota I'm not a tech person: how can encrypted messages be scanned? Isn't that the whole pointof E2E encryption?
:ulfr:@ix9 If they somehow gain access to end users' devices, they can scan before sending / after reception. As long as one party of a conversation or group chat takes part with a compromised device, all contents decrypted by that device will leak. If they have a legal lever against vendors, new devices and updates to old ones will come pre-compromised f.ex. on the operating system level. Futute versions of iOS or Android will be forced to provide means for "lawful" interception. Which is in quotes because according to fundamental rights, there can be no such thing. @Tutanota
Epic Null@ix9 @Tutanota To explain it in a non-tech way:
Imagine you had a letter and a friend you want to send it to. I want to read your letter.
The envelope can only be opened by your friend.
This sounds safe, right?
Well, if I can install a camera on your shoulder (yes I consider it that invasive), I can read the letter either as you write it, or as your friend recieves it.
Chat control is the camera. The envelope is E2EE.
stepplThey will not actually break encryption. The encryption is sort of the envelope in classic postal mail and will not be touched.
Your chat tool is like a paper and pencil. Right now you use normal paper. They will take care you can only use thosehwrite through paper (known from paper forms).
Once you hit 'send': the write through form gets split - the pages are
1. For your envelope, which is transported safely
2. For them - to see if you do evil
ohir@ix9 @Tutanota Infrastructure is ready for the task, at least at Windows and Android. The e2e encryption is irrelevant, the message is accessed and assessed on the screen (or speakers) – the problem US tech companies had that what they do is illegal. They went to the politicians with some 0.00001% of value of this scam and um, get them convinced about a bright affluent future for all engaged parties.