Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:19PM
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The status quo today is that various encrypted messaging apps exist without any apparent backdoors. This has been the case for several years already. The status quo from not long before that was that mobile phones and text messages didn't exist at all.
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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by alkonaut on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:32PM
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Yes. Perhaps the endgame here is that when "old school" voice/text shrinks, so does that avenue for eavesdropping, and once it's almost zero, then allowing any e2e doesn't mean a loss of ability anyway.
Also, so long as metadata is available from cell towers, you can still use the most useful piece of data: that someone's phone was at a crime scene, even if the communication itself was encrypted. That will always be the case (unfortunately also in authoritarian regimes).