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  • Oh man I will never let them read my private comms. So what are they going to do to me? I’m afraid that I, as a good person and father, am going to be punished for not letting them read my private messages. I’m afraid for my future in the EU.
    by teekert
  • According to the EU this will protect us from ”hostile states, and powerful criminal groups and terrorists”

    Because said criminals will politely follow the law and use the broken, backdoor-ed encryption? Instead of the widely available opensourced true encryption? Of course not.

    The true goal is mass surveillance - not protection from <insert-bad-thing-everybody-has-to-agree-is-bad>

    by catoc
  • This is from April 2025.

    Also, whether the plan pushes for backdoors is debatable since those are not actually mentioned.

    by AnssiH
  • Is the actual text of the workplan somewhere? The linked article refers to the text

    more effective tools for law enforcement

    in the press release and then infers or implies that this means more encryption backdoors, but I could not find that in an actual EU text?

    (Edit: I'm not doubting that they want to make backdoors mandatory, I'd just like to see the actual text.)

    by microtonal
  • Meanwhile the latest gen ai agents are able to crack everything not nailed down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494301

    Leaving holes might not be the best plan atm

    by Kim_Bruning
  • With all the current concerns about rogue and mis-aligned AI, and about how we've made essentially zero progress on making sure that AI is safe and trustworthy, NOW you want to put backdoors in encryption algorithms? We should be doing everything we possibly can to make our systems more secure, not less.

    This type of policy was terrible when they first thought of it. Now it's outright negligent and dangerous.

    by jbstack
  • And, of course, no thought is given to the implications this could have in conjunction with the next Orban. Europe is aligning against Russia as a threat, while at the same time shooting itself in the foot by disabling basic rights like privacy with absolutely no memory of how much more basic lack of privacy (enabled by Facebook) was leveraged with relatively simple tools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_d...) to help Brexit happen (effectively breaking Europe apart).

    This quote from Apocalypto stuck with me "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

    by random3
  • The European Commission has far too much power, and answers far too little to the populace. In reality, they want to be dictators.

    If you don't know, the unfortunate way thf EU is structured, the Parliament cannot initiate legislation. They can only vote on whatever the Commission puts in front of them.

    If the Parliament votes "wrong", the Commission just repackages the idea in a new bill, pulls a couple of dirty tricks, and tried again. They only have to succeed once. See ChatControl for a prime example.

    So the EU will eventually require backdoors in encryption. It's only a question of how many tries it takes...

    by bradley13

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