EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]

Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by wizzwizz4 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:28PM (#25029709)

Which they can do, too. Just break into an Android phone (easy enough to do remotely). Bug home, bug the car, bug shoes, now you have phone calls from an iPhone. (You can pick up electrical interference from phone calls on an iPhone, due to the hearing aid induction loop.)

For every phone, you can just slip an antenna under the case (or in the phone's body) and pick up the LCD switching interference – faint though it may be – and figure out what's on the screen from there. Or, you know, CCTV.

Encryption-for-the-masses merely protects from mass surveillance; anyone protecting themselves from targeted surveillance isn't going to suffer from an encryption ban.

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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by alkonaut on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:45PM (#25029817)

I don't see any good middle ground between "authorities can never eavesdrop on inviduals' comms even with a warrant" and "authorities can do mass surveillance". It's a very difficult dilemma. I (as you do) prefer the former if I have to choose. I understand why it's not a very wasy pill to swallow though. Hopefully techniques for targeted eavesdropping (like those you mention) will improve as e2e gets more widespread. The easy of eavesdropping on mobile comms has probably been too comfortable for too long.

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