The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’ from new law

Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:44AM (#29637795)

I personally like being able to connect to a bank online without criminals being able to hack the connection.

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by 1337shadow on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:51AM (#29637888)

This is what they are talking about:

> a passage that would have forced companies such as WhatsApp and Signal to decrypt their encrypted chats upon request by the authorities for criminal investigation.

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by inglor_cz on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:59AM (#29637971)

That is done with backdoors.

The bad property of backdoors is that they can be discovered and used by other people, not just the ones that have the correct badges.

I definitely do not want the Russians, the Chinese or that infamous Israeli private corporation to read my messages at will.

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by 1337shadow on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:31AM (#29638296)

And you'd rather have criminals that we can't catch because evidence is encrypted running around in the same streets as your children? Nobody's saying this law was a silver bullet.

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by piaste on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:53AM (#29639243)

For one, the kind of psychotic violent criminals that might assault random children in the streets are unlikely to get caught thanks specifically to cyber-surveillance.

I am perfectly comfortable with having my children run around in the same streets as people selling drugs or stolen credit card numbers online.

But to address your point less literally - "it might make it easier to catch criminals" is an extraordinarily weak justification for compromising the privacy of BILLIONS of citizens (WhatsApp, sadly, runs most of the personal communications in vast swathes of the world).

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by 1337shadow on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:30AM (#29647214)

Well, that's nice because drug sellers are armed with AK-47s here.

And crime is not limited to selling drugs and stealing credit card numbers (which is actually not a thriving business anymore ...), example:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-abuse-idUSKCN1GO1...

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by inglor_cz on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:33AM (#29638988)

Most crimes leave a lot more evidence than just communication; physical illicit stuff, suspicious money transfers, blood, witnesses.

The only exception I can think of is distribution of child porn. Everything else has a massive real world trace that can be used to convict the perps.

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by ttybird2 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:27AM (#29638925)

"evidence is encrypted running around in the same streets as your children?"

What?

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:44AM (#29638446)

yes.

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