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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Important excerpt:

“Introducing a scanning application on every mobile phone, with its associated infrastructure and management solutions, leads to an extensive and very complex system. Such a complex system grants access to a large number of mobile devices & the personal data thereon. The resulting situation is regarded by AIVD as too large a risk for our digital resilience. (…) Applying detection orders to providers of end-to-end encrypted communications entails too large a security risk for our digital resilience”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

How tf do you even do that? I get how you would on a stock proprietary OS. But there are open OSes, and then how? Doubt something this complex and autonomous could be hidden like the XZ backdoor. If some OS complies - wouldn't people fork it to remove the malware?

And then there are desktops, which are much easier and more universal to make private...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Too bad politicians don't have to base their decisions on an expert opinion. Any credible person will answer that this is a bad idea, but the issue is "easy and quick solutions to difficult problems".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They'll just du what they did before - "Our experts say: it's perfectly safe and secure. No we won't tell you the names of our experts to protect their privacy and personal safety"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Every time you have a child that's abused, you have a child that's abused.

Seems like the solution to this is the normal ways we deal with child abuse: social workers and school counsels.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Failed laws don't stop libre software. Let them backdoor themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No thanks. I have a business, and I don't want to be fined for using software thats protected from backdoors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages

Average person: "Fuck right off."

for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM)

Average person: "OH WELL I GUESS IT'S OKAY THEN."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's why average person sucks, average person doesn't even care about politics and falls for corrupts' tricks easily

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Dutch spooks gonna get in trouble with the regime lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I guess the real predators are the companies who make those surveillance systems