I'm just so tired of it all. At this point I would not be surprised about ending up in prison a decade from now for using encrypted communication.
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I'm not an EU citizen yet, and as a non-citizen brown man, i doubt the MEP would listen to me. How can I do my part anyway?
It's ironic to use a meme from a movie depicting a fascistic government, to protest against a fascistic measure.
Thanks for sharing the link to contact the MEPs. Thats actually very useful.
This is the worst thing in ages. I'm 50+, very good with IT, and I understand that we MUST act against it.
But I'm tired, boss.
Surrounded by lemmings and sheep that love Facebook and WhatsApp. People are stupid. I don't have the energy to fight so much ignorance and stupidity - willful or otherwise.
Just a few years older, in IT as a career, and absolutely the same.
You know what though, when encryption was first developed in the form of pgp, the whole point was that it was to sidestep the government being able to spy on you.
Perhaps we just need to accept that we need to take encrypted communication into our own hands and not rely on messaging apps to protect us
Also, they keep trying. You fight it one year, they're back the next. Extremely undemocratic.
Precisely. You need to keep winning, while they just need to win once. Would love it if repeat offenders like these would just stop being considered entirely after being rejected multiple times.
The provided link will let you contact MPs with just a few lazy clicks.
I'm overwhelmed by this stupidity and collective ignorance all the time. Not just in data privacy regards.
Some days I just want to give up and say "screw it". But damn, I can't. And a lot of others will not stop. If you do, thats alright, it is okay to rest.
Thank you, kind stranger.
Also get those MPs imprisoned
In many cases this could be argued as unconstitutional.
According to the EU constitution?
In germany, it's not technically unconstitutional (i checked last week because i assumed it should be) but it definitely feels like it should be unconstitutional. After WW2, there was a consensus to not surveil your own population, and this is a very important constraint to keep in mind.
Where did you check that? The Vorratsdatenspeicherung has been ruled unconstitutional twice for example
If it passes in the EU, it will pass in the United States. This affects all of us.
Ok how do they plan to enforce that?
By banning HTTPS at the ISP level?
Edit: and then how do they enforce GPDR? Because you better believe everyone and their mother is going to snoop on every communication made.
By forcing Whatsapp Signal etc to implement backdoors
Signal wouldn't, or if it did, it would be labeled as such as an insecure fork for EU conpliance only and make that fork stale immediately.
Blocking HTTPS would be frighteningly hilarious. My employer is one of thousands of websites that utilizes HSTS, which tells web browsers to use HTTPS. Our implementation of HSTS, like lots of banks etc. is also listed with HSTSpreload, which means browsers like chrome will only ever use HTTPS with our site.
What if they just do MITM with a Trusted root? Does HSTS provide a method to do cert pinning?
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By banning HTTPS at the ISP level?
I think you might not be aware of it but big institutions like governments and such can basically already circumvent HTTPS encryption by supplying fake root certificates and forcing the ISP to redirect traffic through their own servers.
That is why End-to-End encryption is such a big deal. Because it cannot be circumvented by the government alone. If done right (proper key exchange), it cannot be broken by anyone but the legitimate recipients. The way WhatsApp does it today, Meta could technically break it too, though i'm not sure whether they do.
That's not necessarily very easy. These certs would have to show up in public certificate transparancy logs for most browsers to accept them. If this happens on a government scale it would surely get noticed, though the question remains what you're left to do if the government forces it anyways...
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency section "Mandatory certificate transparency"
not necessarily very easy
admittedly, but i still assume that the CIA could do it if it tried.
edit: thanks for the link though, this seems very interesting :D
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Any Dutch people here? Follow nerdvote.nl, to help decide who to vote for this election. They are suggesting technical minded people should unite and form a block in elections, so that parties will try to cater to us. If you want our vote, come up with plans an proposals to create digital sovereignty and freedom. As a member of PVDA/GL I am probably voting Barbara Kathmann , as she is fighting for digital sovereignty. Without preferential votes she probably won't make it in so your preferential vote matters!
This would not break encrypted messaging but forbid it.
What if I just transmit a bunch of random ass digits to someone?
And, now listen, what if the someone has a bunch of these numbers in his backpocket, and by complete chance, when added to your number, it gives a number that might just mean something.
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