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Re:The EU Commission accepts high error rates when checking ... by ajvs on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @08:19AM (#32563747)
> what they want (now) is the balanced middle, to allow justified access for "the good guys".

Which can only be done through spyware installed universally if encryption isn't going to be broken. Because that certainly isn't ripe for abuse..

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Re:The EU Commission accepts high error rates when checking ... by ben_w on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:00AM (#32564264)
Yes, it will be abused. As will the surveillance tech that I prefer as an alternative to crypto backdoors, on the grounds that (1) the crypto is far too important to permit backdoors, and (2) it won't be possible to stop boring everyday criminals from getting surveillance tech, let alone governments, and (3) crypto is knowledge that's already out of the bag, so sufficiently motivated bad guys can still have it without backdoors even if everyone else's crypto is broken.

That's why I can only see a plausible outcome involving radical reductions in penalties for basically everything.

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