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> This problem is much worse for "open" systems in which the protocols are public or in which the clients are open source because in those systems anyone can bu
by dane-pgp 4y ago
> This problem is much worse for "open" systems in which the protocols are public or in which the clients are open source because in those systems anyone can build their own client that interoperates with the system but doesn't correctly run the classifier (i.e., it lies!), which makes the system far less useful.
Bold of you to assume that open systems will be allowed under these rules.
In fact, someone who is conspiracy minded might imagine that these rules are being introduced with the specific intent to make open source projects and platforms unable to compete with those of proprietary companies (who have bigger lobbying budgets).
- raxxorraxor 4y agoI simply would ignore this as an open system developer. On the contrary, this mass surveillance is certainly not d'accord with the spirit of most constitutions. And that is even more relevant outside of common law countries. The same argument was used for saving connection meta information. The argument was that it is needed to fight terrorism. Now it is used against weed smokers in the vast majority of cases and the statistics are openly available. Covid tracking data was used for criminal investigation. This is a political and management problem as police has quotas to be fulfilled. So they have to find crime to justify their existence. Of course this would also demand that messengers would log connection information. This is a security risk and should not be done with very few exception like financial transactions.