cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60408809
Additionally, the Commission envisions expanding Europol’s role, effectively transforming it into a European equivalent of the FBI, with enhanced operational capabilities.
Granting Europol the ability to access encrypted data can only mean one thing: Brussels is proposing some form of government-mandated backdoor for communication platforms protected by end-to-end encryption.
It’s been what, 12 years now ? If there’s a time to be more motivated than ever to push back, it’s now. Look at all the cyberattacks happening against developped countries. In the past 2 years i’ve participated in 4 mandates to build back up companies hit by these attacks, and 2 times out of the 4, the decryption keys provided to us by the FBI we’re not even working.
That is why we need strong encryption from the start. They don’t understand anything at this whole mess to be pushing this for decades.