schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoEU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicianswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1794arrow-down112 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoPolice checks your phone and finds the banned piece of software. Or your ISP detects traffic from something which is not reported by the backdoor on your phone. There are so many ways. There is no technological solution to a power problem. Power solutions to power problems include riots, revolutions, assassinations …
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoOh, so TOR, Graphene OS and Signal will be banned then? We’re going towards a dystopia where the police control which apps you can and can’t install? Yeah I see your point
minus-squareAeonFelis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months ago We’re going towards a dystopia…? I mean…
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI know we are heading in that direction but I didn’t expect this to happen so soon. I thought it would be beyond my lifetime
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWell, they are talking about “local scanning” or something, so that’s what I’d imagine.
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI thought they wanted applications to scan and send data to them, but perhaps the Android OS itself isn’t too far of a reach
Police checks your phone and finds the banned piece of software.
Or your ISP detects traffic from something which is not reported by the backdoor on your phone.
There are so many ways.
There is no technological solution to a power problem. Power solutions to power problems include riots, revolutions, assassinations …
Oh, so TOR, Graphene OS and Signal will be banned then? We’re going towards a dystopia where the police control which apps you can and can’t install?
Yeah I see your point
I mean…
I know we are heading in that direction but I didn’t expect this to happen so soon. I thought it would be beyond my lifetime
Well, they are talking about “local scanning” or something, so that’s what I’d imagine.
I thought they wanted applications to scan and send data to them, but perhaps the Android OS itself isn’t too far of a reach