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Maybe they don’t realize that e-commerce wouldn’t exist without trustworthy encryption. They’re taking about sabotaging trillions of dollars of economic transactions in lieu of just doing real police work to find the criminals.
E-commerce would go on just fine even if the government gets a backdoor into the communication.
EDIT: I'm not afraid of all the math I need to learn, just point me in the right direction.
> EU home affairs officials have grown increasingly concerned about international paedophile networks and in July unveiled plans to force technology companies to take greater responsibility for reporting them. "Think of the children" cliché will never die.
Isn’t that the UK’s line
Let’s say they ban end to end encryption tomorrow in their save the children and puppies act. Guess who is still going to use it? The criminals are of course. You can’t ban math.
It's not like e2e is heavily utilized must-have for crime either. Tons of crime happen through regular unencrypted text messages, and nobody gets caught. But this isn't about protecting in the first place, so it isn't all that relevant.
I don't think banning encryption or something silly like that is therefore the solution, but minimizing the problem is not helpful in understanding why there's such a heavy push from all sorts governments, democratic and authoritarian alike, to "deal" with the problem. It's not always because they are Teh Evil Surveillance Statez who want to Take Your Freedom for the sake of Total Control. It's because they are faced with a serious actual real problem of criminals using a technology they barely understand and cannot get past, and so they instinctively reach for the trusty hammer they are so accustomed to using against all serious problems - the Legislative Ban.
They don't understand that using this hammer will have significant unintended consequences, but this isn't malevolence. It's fear and lack of competence.
How much damage does this need to cause before politicians will sit down and understand while their half-assed idea failed?
The headline doesn’t seem to be backed by the content of the note they’re quoting. I do wish papers would reserve “war” for actual wars; while I would be appalled if this goes all the way through, a note saying “we want to have a chat and this is why” is slightly further from even a metaphorical war on encryption than Farage is from an actual war on Brussels.
How can a call to 'stimulate a discussion' somehow get characterized as declaring war?
This looks to me like the EU doing its typical thing of issuing memos to generate more memos, that will then generate more memos ...
Maybe they don’t realize that e-commerce wouldn’t exist without trustworthy encryption. They’re taking about sabotaging trillions of dollars of economic transactions in lieu of just doing real police work to find the criminals.
E-commerce would go on just fine even if the government gets a backdoor into the communication.
E-commerce has enough problems with security already. Adding digital security as another one will be a huge drag.
Do you have any good learning resources on encryption? any Github repositories worth mirroring, with the actual implementations? I am a programmer with zero experience in that area but want to some day be able to "roll out my own crypto" if necessary :) EDIT: I'm not afraid of all the math I need to learn, just point me in the right direction.
The problem isn't necessarily in using a weaker encryption, it's that you can detect that you can't break some crypto, and arrest whoever is using that. This won't stop illegal use of course, but will stop anyone interested in their privacy
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E-commerce would go on just fine even if the government gets a backdoor into the communication.
How long will it survive after the backdoor leaks? How long will credit card stay usable? E-commerce has enough problems with security already. Adding digital security as another one will be a huge drag.
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Isn’t that the UK’s line
The UK has no monopoly on wanting to increase digital surveillance. Almost all other Eu nations are slowly treading in their footsteps.