Forgive me if this is an obvious stupid question, but with all this talk (again) about the EU trying to force chat platforms to check the content of its messages, I can help but think: how are they ever going to prevent me and my friend from sharing public keys and using them to encrypt our messages to each other? In other words: how are they ever going to be able to ban encryption?
The same way they prevent you from transmitting any other illegal content: they fine you and/or throw you in jail if they know you’re doing it.
It’s trivially easy to detect encrypted messages just by measuring the entropy of each message. A messaging provider would just turn you in if they detect it.
You could probably get away with peer-to-peer messaging, but your ISP would be able to detect that you’re using unapproved encryption and then turn you in to the government.
Thanks. And fuck this.
That’s exactly what makes the proposed regulation so absurd. If you’re not completely tech illiterate, you’re gonna use whatever fork of your FOSS software of choice to keep communicating securely. This regulation is just a very obvious data grab for the whatsapp users that are too lazy to switch.
whatsapp is not meaningfully e2ee
When all fails, there is always Happy Net Box
Maybe I’m missing the point (or a joke) but could you explain how this will save us from governmental monitoring?
Do you really think that they still are monitoring an paleolitic, forgotten since almost 50 years (1971), pre-internet command line protocol, like Finger, transmitted with a Ping not even over web? They have enough with monitoring high tech steganographic encrypted chats and socialnet, I2P and TOR network. It’s something like a knock on the door, asking if someone is at home, serve for short text messages Often the best hideout is a plain sight,
Type in your command line
finger zerush@happynetbox.com
