By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag
Software which may be made illegal.
How would such a ban ever be enforceable?
If you are using Windows or mac, they will be first in line to implement “protection” against “insecure software” :)
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Yesterday Google play kindly un-installed KDE connect for my “security” as it is a “dangerous app”
I promptly re-installed from f-Droid.
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And since I didn’t want to root my old phone, I just disabled all of the Google services via adb.
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When I said privacy respecting software, I definitely did not mean windows or Mac lol. Open source is the only way to actually know something respects your privacy, so both those pieces of software are inherently not that. Linux for life!
That’s like already the thing, if I modify my little “secure encrypted sharing protocol” windows will flag it as a virus if I send it (the software) to someone … Then after some time it’s ok. Guess it’s about those antivirus heuristics, but it’s not like it’s not putting a big stick in my bicycle wheel.
Ostensibly via TCPA.
Fuck thats terifying.
How are many other similar bans enforceable? Like CSM itself. With a lot of difficulties.
It wouldn’t be, on Linux at least
Unless TCPA is implemented by manufacturers.
Gamers are here and coming in mass and don’t care about FOSS or security, so I won’t hold my breath.
It’s not really about being enforceable. If most people don’t know how to root their phone and install apps from a third party store or repo, then the common usage of 2e2 is effectively destroyed. Sure, you could still, if you were sufficiently proficient, but you wouldn’t be able to message most of your family or friends securely, and that’s important.