Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
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Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#2What I don't see in the writeup, is which senators are voting which way. I can tell from the writeup what Blumenthal thinks of it, but not any other committee participants.
I really wish politicians would embrace a "we will make policies for things we can understand" motto.
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#3What I don't see in the writeup, is which senators are voting which way. I can tell from the writeup what Blumenthal thinks of it, but not any other committee participants. I really wish politicians would embrace a "we will make policies for things we can understand" motto.
> I really wish politicians would embrace a "we will make policies for things we can understand" motto.
I don't think they'd make many policies if that were the case
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#4I haven't tried reading the text of The Act, most of the press about it focuses on E2EE-type messaging systems. So presumably if this passes, Signal would have to move offshore or something? (for example)
But what about HTTPS certificates, would The Act have any effect on them? Would there be any legal issues with (for example) running your own Matrix server?
And what about hosting providers (instead of platforms). Would Amazon be compelled to decrypt HTTPS traffic en-mass that's routed to their machines?
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#5What I don't see in the writeup, is which senators are voting which way. I can tell from the writeup what Blumenthal thinks of it, but not any other committee participants. I really wish politicians would embrace a "we will make policies for things we can understand" motto.
> I really wish politicians would embrace a "we will make policies for things we can understand" motto. I don't think they'd make many policies if that were the case
that isn't a bad thing.
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I really wish politicians would embrace a "we will make policies for things we can understand" motto. I don't think they'd make many policies if that were the case
that isn't a bad thing.
I'm inclined to agree, though I feel they're already pretty hands-off for most things that don't have corporate interest or overreaching power driving them.
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#7I haven't tried reading the text of The Act, most of the press about it focuses on E2EE-type messaging systems. So presumably if this passes, Signal would have to move offshore or something? (for example) But what about HTTPS certificates, would The Act have any effect on them? Would there be any legal issues with (for example) running your own Matrix server? And what about hosting providers (instead of platforms). W…
Signal has threatened to exit the US market in the past, IIRC.
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#8I haven't tried reading the text of The Act, most of the press about it focuses on E2EE-type messaging systems. So presumably if this passes, Signal would have to move offshore or something? (for example) But what about HTTPS certificates, would The Act have any effect on them? Would there be any legal issues with (for example) running your own Matrix server? And what about hosting providers (instead of platforms). W…
I very much doubt it. Law enforcement doesn’t seem too concerned about regular old HTTPS.
I wonder why?
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#9I haven't tried reading the text of The Act, most of the press about it focuses on E2EE-type messaging systems. So presumably if this passes, Signal would have to move offshore or something? (for example) But what about HTTPS certificates, would The Act have any effect on them? Would there be any legal issues with (for example) running your own Matrix server? And what about hosting providers (instead of platforms). W…
I very much doubt it. Law enforcement doesn’t seem too concerned about regular old HTTPS. I wonder why?
HTTPS is not end-to-end encrypted (it kinda would be if we used P2P but we don't) so you can subpoena the server.
Re: Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
#10May crypto advocates are going about this the wrong way.
Instead of emphasizing that crypto should be protected by freedom of speech, they should acknowledge crypto is a dangerous munition. Therefore it’s protected by the Second Amendment.
The second amendment says the right to bear “arms” will not be abridged. Not firearms.
Shouldn’t that protect crypto?