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[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 145 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Literally on the heels of the revelation that China is spying on all chats and phone calls, these clowns still think back doors are safe in any way.

I swear, humanity is simply failing the IQ test here.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 109 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What we need are laws to prevent this kind of court trolling because courts all over europe are wasting time and money on these repeated proposals. Politicians should be held accountable for wasting everyone's time.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In the US somebody recently found a way to account powerful people.

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Combat_Child_Sexual_Abuse

How your representatives in EU parliament voted: https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=134463&country=fr%7Cde

Looks like it's mostly german representatives that block it. They remember the stasi.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 11 points 11 months ago

It was the one good thing the german liberal party FDP was good for, but they aimed to destroy the coalition from the inside (literally! they made plans and discussion meetings when the best time to destroy it would be). And now they are out and we have the SPD and the Greens left. So one party who really has a hard on for surveillance and the other one who is undecided.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

1000010988

In all seriousness, the EU has become beyond frustrating in so many ways... Kudos for fighting against corporate monoliths, but... c'moon!

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here we go again Good old Child abuse.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Not when the UK is already a member of Five Eyes.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that a burger restaurant?

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they're a burgers & spies joint.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not quite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

An Anglosphere intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries are party to the multilateral UK-USA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (19 children)

You shouldn't be using whatsapp anyway.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

First they came for whatsapp. I didn't say anything because I don't use whattsapp.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It would concern all messaging apps, which is beyond stupid. Lol, even nato uses the matrix protocol.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

No, this would only affect the ones run by corporations with a presence in the EU

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[–] randombullet@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Lots of defense uses XMPP as well

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I actually don’t really understand how they would do this. Isn’t WhatsApp end to end by protocol? They’d have to share messages at the client side. What a mess.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

They want to force WhatsApp to scan your private messages on your device.

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

End-to-end encryption is worthless, when it's done by a company like meta in a closed source project.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

If you own the client, you own the message, agreed.

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

End to end encrypted with keys stored on Meta's servers.

Just kidding but I'm sure there's a backdoor somewhere.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

And its fucking back again

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