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> This will require them to monitor and scan the communications of citizens en masse – even if they are still securely encrypted end-to-end so far. how does th
by cntrl 4y ago
> This will require them to monitor and scan the communications of citizens en masse – even if they are still securely encrypted end-to-end so far.
how does this work though? Or do they want to force communication services to have backdoor into their encryption technology?
- rightbyte 4y agoYou could program the clients to look for blacklisted URLs or picture hashes or whatever and still have end to end encryption I guess. Would defeat the point though and the eavesdropping could just aswell be on the server with no end to end encryption.
- vaylian 4y agoAfaik the legislation will force communication service providers (WhatsApp, MSN Messenger, ...) to scan any chat message for illegal material before it is encrypted and sent. The scanning happens against a known database of data fingerprints.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoSo what happens with self-hosted or decentralized services? Like matrix.
- vaylian 4y agoDepends entirely on how the law itself will be phrased. Maybe there is an exception to services below a certain size. But I don't expect the politicians behind this initiative to have matrix on the radar or even understand decentralized chat protocols.