Content control: Down with the encryption!

Somehow I must have missed a post by Meredith Whittaker (Signal Messenger) in June, in which she complains about the new branding of this nonsense.

Instead of breaking encryption, a content check is now to take place before sending (before encryption) ... as a consequence this would not affect the encryption. As keen as a razor.

What these morons failed to take into account is the purpose of encryption. The purpose is the confidentiality of information - precisely the content to be checked in advance here - is secured between the communicating parties. And this control undoes that.

I hope I don't need to explain how this prior check could possibly be problematic here.

If you really have difficulties with this, just think about how well it works if you work as a journalist in Russia or China. Or if you are a member of a parliament and have to communicate securely in an insecure environment.

But such encryption problems only affect criminals anyway. For example, journalists, or members of parliaments on a trip to China ... the usual suspects.

What is the assumption? That this only happens in the EU? How is Hungary currently classified with this in mind? If I'm not mistaken, they are not necessarily always cc when it comes to certain topics.

And what exactly are the assumptions about the criminals who are probably being targeted here? It's not rocket science to use an open source messenger, remove this function and then use it.

That would be illegal? Well, tell that to Kevin. Not only is he running an illegal messenger, that bastard also sells medium-range ballistic missiles to terrorists. I guess that is illegal too!

Who do you want to catch with this? This is a proposal from morons for morons. It's no problem at all to provide this and it's also no problem to use it.

Allegedly there are people who are installing an alternative firmware on their Android phones just because their device is no longer in support. And obviously also because the sight of One UI makes you throw up. How are we supposed to prevent people from using a messenger that completely bypasses this measure?

So we are putting everyone at risk including people who are extremely vulnerable to this kind of ... checks. Just to catch a bunch of morons who couldn't figure out how to flash their phone and sideload an app (worst case)?

Brilliant. 👍