European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety
from the less-safety-equals-more-safety,-say-EuroCops dept
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/29/european-law-enforcement-officials-declare-encryption-must-be-broken-to-ensure-public-safety/Open linkView original on lemmy.today183
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Front doors also stop them from seeing things... is that next? What about clothes to conceal drugs?
Butt cheeks must be cut off so I can more easily inspect your rectum.
"Aight sir i just needs ta check insad ya aeshowl"
I suppose previous generations of law enforcement that were able to do their jobs before all this does not count.
To be fair: previous generations of police officers, back when most people used phones, have made extensive use of wiretapping (and current policemen still do, of course).
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Forty years ago police had to have a basic level of intelligence and they investigated. Now some of them just rely on arm-twisting and plea bargain threats to find any patsy they can to stuff in a cell. They can have no crime, no complaint, no witness, no evidence, and still arrest you, and the D.A. will offer you a plea deal for something that didn't even happen. Your public pretender defense lawyer will tell you to take the deal. Don't laugh... it can happen to anyone.
Sad but true.
You seem to be describing the US system (or some other common law one... but I believe district attorney is a US-specific term?)...
IDK about other EU countries (I guess they are all the same in this regard?), but in my Italy the public prosecutor has zero discretionary power when it comes to indictment and must, per the Italian Constitution, proceed based on the investigation outcomes. So there is no "help me catch the bigger fish and I'll only charge you with some minor crime" like in the movies.
So... yes, what you describe can happen to anyone, but it can't happen just anywhere :)
The court system in USA is absolutely and irredeemably corrupt. Many prosecutors in USA are vile criminals and most of them belong in prison themselves. They have no respect for the Constitution or Bill of Rights that they are by law subscribed and sworn to uphold. They will use bogus criminal charges to affect or chill the outcome of an unrelated civil matter, to 'shut you up' in street parlance. People think America is free. It is an authoritarian hell run by delusional nutters. People like to scoff at that, until it's _their turn_ to ride the courthouse railroad.
lazy asses. no wonder so much real actual crime goes unnoticed.
And how exactly do they think they're going to break PGP and TOR without running an NSA-style racket?
Simple, they make it illegal so they don’t have to break the encryption and can arrest you purely for having encrypted content.
This just results in deniable encryption.
I had no idea this jpeg was 40gig ur honor
That's rookie numbers. My collection of cat pics is about 2 TB. Individual files are reasonable size of course. Clearly nothing can be hidden there.
They’ll be accepting responsibility for every illegal act that’s preventable by annihilating the right to privacy, then?
What about the illegal, but moral acts?
That would require an appreciation of nuance, which governments aren’t famous for having.
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Nuance? Isn't that a racial slur? Mastodon is too based for me.
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Looky here, we found this nifty thing called, 'qualified immunity'.
Not in Europe, that's a US thing.
You can have it now. We don't want it any more!
Malicious compliance. Have Apple and Google remove all apps that feature encryption — web browsers, banking apps, messaging apps — from their stores for 24 hours. Demonstrate that this isn’t really a good idea.
They should agree to do that willingly. While they are at it they should break sign in as well and block outgoing 443
That's dumb
FTFY
Off with their heads?
I would start with a letter to your representative
I don't live in the EU
In the US encryption (source code) is protected under free speech
OK, but you remove all gun safety mechanisms. If you shoot yourselves in the balls, we encrypt everything back.
Ah shit. Here we go again 🤣🤣
Not surprising