And yet Europe gets held up as this bastion of liberty and personal rights…
Things like the GDPR are lovely and all, but then ask for the ability to have real-time access to private communications, pick a lane folks the rest of the world needs an example to live up to
Unfortunately they are the example, there isn’t anything better.
What needs happen is that they make encryption popular by banning it
The problem with that line of thought though, while people generally expect/wish for private communication, few actually care to understand the mechanics of it. Nor should they have to, that’s what security engineers are for, to do all that archaic setup so people can just use it without having to check certificates and protocols and all that stuff.
I’d say that if we could just have a simple to use, no-click pgp style system things would be good and we no longer have to keep nagging people to set things up the ‘right’ way, but so much of the hassle comes in by people using 100 different communication platforms.
Of course though: https://xkcd.com/927/
I swear, I’m just gonna laugh at these clowns, honestly, and just PGP encrypt my messages that they can intercept in plain text. So fuck them. I don’t actually think they will win, but even if they did, it will only hurt law abiding people and will make no a difference to non-law abiding people.
Give it a few years and EU will pass some laws to round up trouble makers like yourself.
Until the yoke of authority becomes so oppressive that everybody breaks the law, you are definitely right. They will target people. But once they get so oppressive that everybody is breaking the law and just ignoring them, then they lose all power. After all, they can’t arrest everybody. Where would they hold them and who would be in charge of them and who would make them their lattes and shit.
I’m sure people were saying the same thing in 1930s Germany.
Mmmm. Good point. Now there’s a frightening thought.
- Hold them?! * chuckles * No, sir, we will not hold you… Certainly not for longer than this crematorium takes to process you. 😵💫
Trouble maker?
a person who doesn’t go with the flow
The flow of mass surveillance?
yeah that’s very clearly the direction EU is headed in
And that makes @shortwavesurfer@monero.town a trouble maker
I swear, I’m just gonna laugh at these clowns, honestly, and just PGP encrypt my messages that they can intercept in plain text. So fuck them. I don’t actually think they will win, but even if they did, it will only hurt law abiding people and will make no a difference to non-law abiding people.
I am betting you they would try to intercept before you encrypt - like keylogging or something. Those fuckers.
The doesn’t fix metadata
That’s definitely true.
Still better than nothing
Its not better than better encrypted messaging apps
In the EU the law always permits to access the user data and can force the network owner to give this data, if he had accss to these, normally not possible with encrypted datas. But anyway the law only can force the webowner or the ISP to give the user data only with a court order in a crime investigation. Without this, the big middle finger. But I think that it isn’t needed in Fakebook, X, etc, probably for these is enough a phone call (US laws)
