Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
by mratsim on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:26AM
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This would be in breach of various privacy laws in the EU.
Companies have been sued for using weak encryption (cough plaintext passwords).
Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
by zelphirkalt on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:39AM
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Of course, yes, but does it stop any of these politicians to come up with stupid ideas? I don't think so. Do we need more tests of what is OK in front of the European courts? 'cause once these politicians are sufficiently "incentivized" they wont stop pushing "their" ideas.
What a load of bs.
Because those tech-freaks always find a way right? Innovation will simply appear without any doing on our part. We can just create non-sense bills and laws and they will make it work. They will magically find a way.
These imbeciles do not even understand the simplest things about encryption, but want to make laws for it. Ridiculous. I would laugh right now, if it was not such a serious issue.
Well, I am not in the US, but it will affect people world wide, who use services hosted in the US and next things happening EU comes around the corner with an equally stupid idea and it will hit me directly. Time for EFF again to save this world from idiotic leadership. You have my support.