Europol doesn't only want an encryption backdoor, but also your metadata
Europol doesn't only want an encryption backdoor, but also your metadata
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Europol wants your metadata as well as encryption backdoors – here's every risk to encryption experts are fearing
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46419096
The secret of how to do strong encryption is out, since 1991. You can't erase it from everyone's minds. Criminals can not be stopped from using it by passing laws against it. Its only law-abiding people who will be made unsafe by that.
I mean, yes and no. There's stupid criminals and smarter ones. The general conclusion holds if backdoors stop teenagers from selling weed, but are then used by Russian hackers to conduct high-profile blackmail, though.
And then you get the near-certainty of some government using privileged access to do evil, as well.
What about criminals with bad privacy practises?
No need to backdoor encryption then
What happened in 1991?
I think he is referring to PGP being released.
1991 – Phil Zimmermann releases the public key encryption program PGP along with its source code, which quickly appears on the Internet.
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