France pushes for law enforcement access to Signal, WhatsApp and encrypted email
Proposals to be discussed in the French Parliament will require tech companies to hand over decrypted messages and email or face huge fines
The power struggle in these governements between the psycho glowies and the people with IT knowledge pushing for more encryption and decentralization must be so frustrating. Imagine you work for years on large scale implementations for more private and secure infrastructure and then some 40 IQ caveman comes along screaming about "protect the children and police work is too hard waaah" completely fucking your whole public standing.
I don't think they're stupid, they just don't care about the same things. The sooner people understand that the better.
Yeah i know, they are simply corrupt and serve the interest of tech companies looking to capitalize from those decisions. But that only makes sense on a surface level, because if we actually broke encryption like this, they themselves would be heavily negatively impacted by it. Nobody wins when all communication is backdoored. Ofcourse they would say "ah but we the important people wont have the backdoored version" but realistically that wont work.
How would they even guarantee access to e2e email? That's not enforced by some company, that's just an open standard.
Crossposted to !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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