cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60408809
Additionally, the Commission envisions expanding Europol’s role, effectively transforming it into a European equivalent of the FBI, with enhanced operational capabilities.
Granting Europol the ability to access encrypted data can only mean one thing: Brussels is proposing some form of government-mandated backdoor for communication platforms protected by end-to-end encryption.
It’s been what, 12 years now ? If there’s a time to be more motivated than ever to push back, it’s now. Look at all the cyberattacks happening against developped countries. In the past 2 years i’ve participated in 4 mandates to build back up companies hit by these attacks, and 2 times out of the 4, the decryption keys provided to us by the FBI we’re not even working.
That is why we need strong encryption from the start. They don’t understand anything at this whole mess to be pushing this for decades.
So, these are centre-Left politicians, correct? So, why are they doing this? For our 'safety? ’ Right…
These politicians need a lesson in civics. You are not building safeguards that stop nazis, you are building the nazi “person finding” infrastructure for them before they even get in power.
Or, the most obvious, less moving parts answer is that they are corrupt and only will push policies and fear mongering that will keep them in power. Irrelevant if they are Left or Right.
You are being too kind if you think they are not 100% aware of what they are doing. They do not need a lesson in Civics, they need to be replaced.
The centre left keeps doing it:
Remember: Obama set up the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies. Obama also signed the USA freedom act (prolonging the patriot act though lightening it a tad bit).
They keep digging the hole Russians will bury them in.
For all the talk that Obama did, great job of showing that he is a sell out by extending the Patriot Act and all the spying that it allows.
I wish the communications of politicians get hacked and their plans leaked. They don’t care unless it happens to them.
You are correct. Having worked in information technology, I realized pretty quickly that management is always reactive and never proactive.
In the words of pentester Jason E. Street in his defcon talk “kill everyone, destroy everything, cause total financial ruin” - “the best way to get management excited about a disaster plan is to burn down the building across the street.”
If a government got hacked big time because of a back door, they would probably become a lot less interested.
I need to watch this Defcon talk
They never give up. After a bill attempt is buried, a new one is prepared just weeks afterwards.
Sounds like a backdoor in democracy that needs closing.
‘democracy’
‘backdoor’
True and im tired boss
That’s their strategy. When everyone is too tired to fight, they will get it through
or like the anti-pirate bill from a few years back that had more votes than politicians and no one gave a shit or even remembers that little insane corruption.
Man, the try again until tired starts to work on me.
