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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60408809

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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.

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[โ€“] BlaueHeiligenBlume@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ANY backdoor WILL get exploited. Just a matter of time.

[โ€“] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

that's the point, to secure itself against $enemy-nation the state will first secure itself against the citizenry, by having a way of compromising citizens security on demand

ultimately governnment only cares that IT can exploit the mechanism, not that other actors cannot do so via the same mechanism

strip away all the obfuscation layers (there are so many lol) and thats pretty much the extent of the thought process of natsec orgs. you're the threat. its an utterly retarded mind virus thats infected them we can all agree, but from an individual's standpoint we can only protest and hope to shame the policymakers into a constructive course of action