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“Only the thing we are searching for will be searched for”
How do you know if a message has that content without scanning all messages to begin with?
The fuck? Do they think we are stupid?
Do they think we are stupid?
They definitely do. And they are partly right, for the average person this is enough to stop worrying
The average person wasn’t even worried or indeed aware of this to begin with
If this were just hash checks running on the local device before it’s encrypted and sent I could accept it. Using AI is a step too far.
No, even this should not be applied or sent anywhere. It’s my phone I decide what it does, no one else. I paid for it with my money
I think refusing to send anything that’s on the hash list wouldn’t be far enough for the EU.
Only material that is clearly child sexual abuse will be searched for and can be detected.
Uh-huh. And how do you search for something specific without decrypting everything first? This is fucking embarrassing.
Wasn’t the plan for the messenger to scan for explicit material before the messages were sent (and encrypted)?
I’m going off of a article by TechRadar, but essentially: yes. This isn’t about breaking encryption as I initially thought, though that seems to have been the goal when the same law was proposed (and rightfully rejected) in 2022. Rather, the new revision is about making encryption utterly pointless through the virtue of scanning all messages on your device, as you suggested. At least that’s my read on the situation.
Yup, that’s it.
They should just mandate that the child pornographers set the evil bit. It would save the EU leaders the trouble of learning how cryptography works.
Yeah we all know that’s BS. “Child porn only” will become “anything illegal” which will become “whatever we want” and SL"with a warrant" will become “all the time”
