The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online

Re:The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every M... by judge2020 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:07PM (#22715276)

> However, none of this particularly frightens me. That's because I assume that any communication where I don't manually encrypt stuff locally, using well-vetted open-source software, is vulnerable. And I also assume that any entity that operates openly, and is vulnerable to legal, criminal or financial pressure, cannot be trusted at all.

I can bet they'll also have rules along the lines of "services will scan their own non-encrypted messages to make sure no encryption is being done by the user", so you'd likely be legally liable, or at least liable to being banned by the service.

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Re:The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every M... by mirimir on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:20PM (#22715338)

Well, there's steganography.

And as I said, I'd just avoid services that were vulnerable to coercion.

If it gets to the point that all ISPs block anything that's encrypted, then most everyone will be screwed. However, that'd be hard to implement without creating opportunities for private pwnage.

And as a deep backup, there's always encryption via covert channels. You can only hide maybe 0.1%-1% of throughput, but that's enough for text hidden in video or whatever.

And re banning, I can create as many new personas as I need.

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