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If progressively more governmental communications are made through encrypted means, we cannot access them as citizens.
Does this make freedom of information requests less useful to the public?
especially considering they "forked" it, who knows what they will do with it (log keystrokes, take screenshots, in the disguise of diagnostic reasons?).
anytime you are reading a message from your app, or sending a message, the app have all the powers to capture the data in its raw form before transmission, encrypt it with some key that only they have control of, etc. so unless the gov't releases their source code to be truly open (which even then i don't see how you will ever know), you won't get the transparency you need.
encryption is such a buzzword, people think anything encrypted means you are fully secure. this is simply false.
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If progressively more governmental communications are made through encrypted means, we cannot access them as citizens.
Do the French make their own hardware? An encryption app is useless if you don't 100% trust the hardware. Tainted hardware could figure out, log and send your keystrokes from screen taps/swipes all from silicon.
well, this is what scares me. because, the conversation may be encrypted (protocol, packets), but still messages can be accessible by the powers that be through variety of means. especially considering they "forked" it, who knows what they will do with it (log keystrokes, take screenshots, in the disguise of diagnostic reasons?). anytime you are reading a message from your app, or sending a message, the app have all…
It's way more secure than Facebook messenger or SMS.
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If progressively more governmental communications are made through encrypted means, we cannot access them as citizens.
Yeah, end-to-end encryption is strange here. Aren't there laws in France to ensure retention of government employee communications?
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If progressively more governmental communications are made through encrypted means, we cannot access them as citizens.
(Note that in first world countries phone calls will be digital everywhere except maybe the last mile, and GSM and upwards are digital to the handset)
Do the French make their own hardware? An encryption app is useless if you don't 100% trust the hardware. Tainted hardware could figure out, log and send your keystrokes from screen taps/swipes all from silicon.
But France does have some domestic defence capability here - Thales make hardware security modules and similar products, and STMicroelectronics has chip design expertise while being partly state-owned.