Of course, it's being done to "protect the children." Because using the Lovejoy Justification is intended to make opponents/critics of such proposals look like defenders of criminal activity regardless of their informed and rationally presented explanations of the technical insanity being proposed by clueless politicians... -- rick
EU plans to require backdoor to encrypted messages for child protection https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/11/eu-plans-to-require-backdoor-to-encrypted-messages-for-child-protection A leaked European Union proposal shows plans to mandate CSAM scanning for child protection in all encrypted messaging services. In 2021, Apple eventually backed down over its own plans to introduce scanning for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and agreed to postpone it following severe criticism of its dangers to all privacy. Notably, the UK government backed Apple's plans, albeit after Apple had withdrawn them, and chiefly as part of its own wish to get backdoors into end-to-end encryption. Now it appears that many of the UK's former fellow EU member countries have been planning their own CSAM measures. These plans have been such that the EU intends to impose a single pan-European solution, both to standardize the measures, and because it says that voluntary ones have not been sufficient. Security consultant Alec Muffett has tweeted a copy of a draft EU proposal about "laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse." < - > Matthew Green, cryptography teacher at Johns Hopkins University, has described the leaked plans as "the most terrifying thing I've ever seen." < - > -- Iw mailing list [email protected] http://sticklist.org/mailman/listinfo/iw_sticklist.org
