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Re:Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in... by thaumasiotes on Friday October 03, 2025 @04:59PM (#45467709)
> If client side scanning is mandated for everything then the natural place for it to wind up is in the OS. Once your OS is scanning all the things, your privacy is finished - pretty good or otherwise.

An air gap can solve that problem:

1. Create an illegal message on a machine with no internet.

2. Encrypt the message.

3. Copy the encrypted message over to a machine that does have internet.

4. Send it.

Re:Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in... by sudahtigabulan on Friday October 03, 2025 @05:45PM (#45468170)
Tinfoil Chat does that (and more).

https://github.com/maqp/tfc