Europol wants to bypass #WhatsApp and #Signal encryption

"In a joint appeal made public on Sunday, European police forces are calling on governments to allow message encryption on communication platforms to be circumvented."

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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2024/04/22/europol-wants-to-bypass-whatsapp-and-signal-encryption_6669181_13.html#

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how can they do this?

Only way is if the messenger providers build in a backdoor

I think they meant backdoors on the actual phones.

Regulatoors

Someone's gotta have one of those old guillotines in their shed right?

Didn’t the cypherpunks win this battle in the 90s? Encryption is out and everywhere. We won.

Not quite. It’s my understanding (albeit limited) that encryption being released to the public was coupled with centralization of encyoted data by private corporations. I recently read this from nostr:npub15s3hussvmv9nyvw3w8lg0x72udazmdat7tcj5vmmjafnwcvv8tpqzz6r6y . I found it pretty informative.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf