Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
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Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
#2I'm so tired of these...
Is there really no way we can make it technologically impossible for them to exfiltrate user data?
Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
#3I'm so tired of these... Is there really no way we can make it technologically impossible for them to exfiltrate user data?
The problem is they'll legislate for the providers to insert back doors, negating cryptographic hardness.
Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
#4Feels like we're headed back towards governments attempting to control the sharing and usage of cryptographic algorithms again.
Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
#5I'm so tired of these... Is there really no way we can make it technologically impossible for them to exfiltrate user data?
You can make it technologically impossible, but they can also come and arrest you just for using such technology. So its not really a technical problem, its a social/political one.
Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
#6I'm so tired of these... Is there really no way we can make it technologically impossible for them to exfiltrate user data?
The problem is they'll legislate for the providers to insert back doors, negating cryptographic hardness.
They have to make custom software illegal at some point.
Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
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#8Whenever these people ask for more power in order to "stop/prevent crime", there should be a bot that replies a list of times when the police didn't act to stop crime, despite having full knowledge of the crime occuring and potential to stop it from happening.
EU member and supporter of Chat Control, Romania, had a massive scandal where a kidnapped 15 year old girl called emergency services multiple times to report she was being kidnapped, every single time, the operators and the police officers spoke to her in an ironic and condescending tone. It took 19 hours to locate her, by which time, she was already dead. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Alexandra_M%C4%8...
Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
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Re: Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
#10I'm so tired of these... Is there really no way we can make it technologically impossible for them to exfiltrate user data?
You can make it technologically impossible, but they can also come and arrest you just for using such technology. So its not really a technical problem, its a social/political one.
Sure, but then they need to send a physical person, which is expensive and impossible to scale. Making it extremely expensive is probably good enough.
(Feels like we have this same discussion over and over on HN.)