> I have no idea what the EU is proposing Well the article is about efforts aiming at weakening encryption, and my comment is about that. > is true, it's also

> I have no idea what the EU is proposing Well the article is about efforts aiming at weakening encryption, and my comment is about that. > is true, it's also moot. Anything is moot if you completely ignore the context. The article talks about policy makers who want to alter encryption in such a way that they get more control over it. My point is that they need to understand that they cannot get this kind of control the way they advertise it (with "privacy-preserving sniffers"). Of course you can say that anyway the NSA can hack you, but that's off-topic here. My point is that politicians need to understand the basics of how encryption works, such that they can think properly about propositions like that. Even for politicians, there is a big difference between "privacy-preserving sniffing" and "adding a spyware in every device". The former is impossible, the latter is possible. But many politicians wouldn't vote for the latter.