ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption rules

Re:ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption r... by rakoo on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:23AM (#25941413)

Look at the existing cases of terrorism. All of them used unencrypted forms of communication: shared Gmail account, phone calls, even good old SMS. The issue is not that police can't see what those people are doing, none of the perpretators are unknown; it's that they (and the judiciary branch) don't have enough resources to really tackle them.

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Re:ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption r... by koonsolo on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:54AM (#25943799)

I partly agree with you.

But right now, it's pretty easy to use end-to-end encrypted forms of communication, so why still use sms?

Knowing the suspects and having limited resources, seems to me a argument for listening into communication, not an argument against it.

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Re:ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption r... by rakoo on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:30PM (#25946511)

I'm not exactly an expert on the issue, but I could imagine that they use sms because that's the only available form of communication on an anonymous $10 dumbphone, and any computer connected to the internet can connect to a webmail.

Listening to more communications is exactly a resource problem: it isn't exactly cheap to build and maintain the infrastructure to gather and analyze more. Moreover in the context of the link, while I'm not a fan of conversations being listened on by default, I certainly don't want resources be spent so that encryption can be reduced

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