The EU’s HLG (High Level Group) now considers VPNs among “key challenges” to investigative work.
End-to-end encryption is also mentioned in the final report as the biggest technical challenge
Experts are calling for restraint and consideration on the measures, fearing civilians will carry “state spyware in their pockets”
oh, that’s it…
Let me guess those lawmakers themselves will communicate with uncompromised encryption, it is only everyone else that will require a backdoor making all data passing essentially unencrypted. For a second guess let me suggest those lawmakers will not imagine themselves in any way personally responsible for all the data lost by individuals as a result of their proposed measures.
Rules for thee and all of that…
“lawmakers” seem like an inappropriate term for the kind of enemies of the general population who usually demand these kinds of measures.
Calling it now: before the end of this decade, doing anything (legit) online will require users to verify with a government-backed identity solution provider. Both in EU and US (and therefore de facto everywhere it matters).
Maybe then we’ll finally get a cool separate web with hackers and neuromancers and whatnot. Probably not.
I’ll join some kind of neo-Amish community and live without the Internet before I put up with a shitty Internet that’s locked down to that extent.
I’m down with that. The internet has made humanity worse overall even if it makes life more convenient. It’s a Pandora’s box we weren’t ready for yet.
The internet isn’t what turned everything to shit. That was capitalism. Technology of and by itself is never evil, but of course there’s always tons of people ready to use it for evil purposes. Our current ‘big bad’ is still simply capitalism though.
Our form of capitalism is driven by technology
No. Capitalists use technology to further their goals. Technology has no agency, makes no decisions, and is not a philosophy. It is literally just knowledge. Capitalism and human bad actors are literally the problem as they have been for all of recorded history. This is also seen in other primate species like baboons who are able to live relatively peaceful and low-stress lives when they organize in cooperative, pro-social troops.
When will these fucking idiots give up? Like we’re ever going to give up privacy? Yeah, right after self-determination, you fucks.
Can’t wait for it to be illegal to have a custom ROM Android with some FOSS messenger in your pocket and then for the first major breach, leaking all private messenges of some rich motherfuckers ending the practice again
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How about just thinking about shit? Can that be private?
Einstein thought about relativity in his mind. And Hiroshima happened.
I want to think about reproductive organs and their proper use. Is that legal?
