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‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control

www.patrick-breyer.de ‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control

Over 500 of the world’s leading cryptographers, security researchers, and scientists from 34 countries have today delivered a devastating verdict on the EU’s proposed "Chat Control" regulation. An open letter published this morning declares the plan to mass-scan private messages is "technically infe

‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control

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‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control

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‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control

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‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control

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‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control

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The global shift rightward re: censorship and privacy really stresses me out
- All states must be abolished

Netanyahu is gleeful about the corrupt eu corporate politicians.
- I don't think the danish politicians are corrupt. They're just dumbfucks.
  
  I'm guessing a little A and a little B.
  Ok, a whole lot of B.
  
  Corrupted by an authoritarian mindset at least. Germanics wanting to give more power to the state over their citizens it is unheard of. /s

Surprised to see the Spanish government in favour of this. Anybody know their reasons?

It sounds good on the surface.
My biggest issue with this :
are they going to make cryptography illegal? If not then they are not going to get anywhere. Will they make FOSS illegal? Device ownership? Math?
Who is going to do the surveillance? The Yankees? Russians? Chinese? It is a free economy so basically a gigantic security hole.
If someone actually knows the answers please help me understand how these issues are resolved.

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