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strange, they choose signal to communicate https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/24/21150918/european-commiss...
These things usually boil down to: You must not do as I do, you must do what I tell you to.
I was told that this only happens in authoritarian regimes like China. Turns out that while everybody was talking about China exact same things were happening here in the West. It's as if the whole focus on China was specifically designed to distract people from what's happening in their own countries.
USA has been doing it as long as the second war started and never stopped.
And they consider strong encryption a weapon.
Are you familiar with the Zimmermann case?
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If by “we” you mean “the UK”, I’d like to point you in the direction of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act, which is much worse than “we don’t like encrypted chat”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_201...
That is true, but you will be able to vote for a party in power to reverse it. Not possible in case of EU.
Also - I am still shocked how much surveillance there is in the UK compared to mainland Europe. In the UK it's a criminal offence to refuse to hand over passwords for your devices (and encryption keys).
That is not the case in the EU, so I find it quite funny that you cite a proposal that would have to go through the parliament first and could still be overruled by national laws, as a good reason for not being in the EU :D
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That is true, but you will be able to vote for a party in power to reverse it. Not possible in case of EU.
> That is true, but you will be able to vote for a party in power to reverse it. Not possible in case of EU. Explain this logic to me please.
This shows that the attack was planned by the powers that be, if not planned at least not actively blocked. It was 1 guy with a weapon that the Austrian secret service was warned about. The media made it 6 people doing a huge thing, in the end it was just 1 guy with an AK47 apparently. Austrian intelligence was warned by the Slovaks about him and they let him do regardless. Just like the 9/11 stuff, they knew what wa…
> We need to leave the EU ASAP. I'd rather not. Can we fix it?
We need to establish the use of encryption as a basic human right. I'm so tired of this cropping up every couple years.
I wonder if we can make an encryption protocol that cryptographically securely encrypts an arbitrary English sentence into an English passage that sounds like it makes sense but is unrelated to the ciphertext.
The question of interest is "how to generate sentences that allow the most dense insertion of data?".
The best two I saw were:
* Used a copy paste (with link) of tweets / jokes / song lyrics with trite comments around them.
* Used an html formatted email with images embedded. The images were fiddled to hold the bulk of the payload and the surrounding sentences were just to describe the image to give it authenticity.
The funniest was a dirty poem generator based on an oracled (to inject the payload) monte carlo sim. It ised historic dirty letters and all sorts of poem formats.
This was at a hackathon in Hampshire (uk) ~2014
I'm sick and tired of seeing tech-illiterate decision makers on both international levels attempt to thwart our right to privacy. Does anyone know what we or I can do (in this case specifically) to help fight this idiocy?
On the other hand, I'd rather not see explicit visuals of von Der Leyen and gang. The sheer horror!
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That is not encrypted then.
They think it is.
I'm sick and tired of seeing tech-illiterate decision makers on both international levels attempt to thwart our right to privacy. Does anyone know what we or I can do (in this case specifically) to help fight this idiocy?
Yeah: run for office, win, and then effect policy change. But almost no one's willing to actually do that. They just want easy outs like "contacting your MP" or "donating to an org that says they'll try to fix it".
But I don't seem to reach through. I'd be willing to do volunteer work or start an organization, but can't really run for office as I have another career.
Besides: I don't know what party would have me, because it seems to me that the politicians don't understand the arguments nor the premise – they're no tech-experts, after all (which is part of the problem, I suspect).