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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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GHOST 1y ago

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

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oobiyou 1y ago

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

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