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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (21 children)

My point being, what are they going to achieve with this? Ask WhatsApp to pass over their encryption keys?

It should be pretty obvious that you shouldn't be sharing sensitive stuff on chat apps controlled by the NSA. Use element with encryption or something, maybe Briar etc. What are they going to do if you insist on using apps which use asymmetric client-side encryption, break TOR? Force you to use symmetric encryption and give the government your decryption keys?

I don't see how they are going to spy on sensitive details of Europeans with this. They might as well ban phones completely if they want to limit communication.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

When the endpoint is controlled the keys are published

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm wondering, what are EU politicians doing dirty jobs using?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
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