EU High Level Group (established by EU commission) recommends forcing all devices in the EU to be sold with ”integrated Law Enforcement access” and sanctioning non-EU approved messaging services

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/1105a0ef-535c-44a7-a6d4-a8478fce1d29_en?filename=Recommendations+of+the+HLG+on+Access+to+Data+for+Effective+Law+Enforcement_en.pdf

EU High Level Group (established by EU commission) recommends forcing all devices in the EU to be sold with ”integrated Law Enforcement access” (page 21, recommendation 25) and sanctioning non-EU approved messaging services (recommendation 33)

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redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

They keys to that backdoor would be for sale on the darknet in a week. Morons.

deafboy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Considering the raising popularity of authoritarianism, with a healthy dose of paranoia, it's not the criminals I worry about.

_core@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

There's no such thing as a backdoor, a backdoor is a front door.

deinu@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y

"We should sanction non-approved messaging services because they are open to abuse by foreign governments." Sure. What about USA putting backdoors into things and the backdoors being used by said foreign governmemts? What a terrible argument.

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bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Any EU bros with lists of EPs I can mail?

haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 4 pts · 1y

We are in an idiot-autocracy and there is no way out...