When did the EU.gov get so, well, stupid?
The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent's denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor encryption by 2026, or even sooner.Well, duh.
While the superstate has made noises about backdooring encryption before the ProtectEU plan [PDF], launched on Monday at the European Parliament, says the European Commission wants to develop a roadmap to allow "lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement in 2025" and a technology roadmap to do so by the following year.
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According to the document, the EC will set up a Security Research & Innovation Campus at its Joint Research Centre in 2026 to work out the technical details. Since it's impossible to backdoor encryption in a way that can't be exploited by others, it seems a very odd move to make if security's your goal.
China, Russia, and the US certainly would spend a huge amount of time and money to find the backdoor. Even American law enforcement has given up on the cause of backdooring, although the UK still seems to be wedded to the idea. [boldface by me - Borepatch]
Now the cynical view of things is that the EU.gov is not being stupid at all, but just think that their adversary is not China and Russia and the USofA but rather their own populations.
11 comments:
Meh.
We live in an age where due process and law don't apply. If I were a tyrant who wanted to get you out of my hair I don't need evidence. I just need a few corrupt friends to say your guilty, fab some evidence - and away you go.
Or I can charge you with new fangled hate crime, hate speech, and/or freeze you out of your bank accounts.
They have crossed the Rubicon and we'd better get our poop in a group or prepared to surrender.
Not stupid, evil. We need sanctions against them. I would suggest an LNG embargo.
All governments view their own citizens as a greater threat than any other entity.
Agree with Glen!
Of course the native populations of Europe are the primary enemy of the leadership of the EU. "Since the citizens might vote the wrong way, the government decided to elect a new people."
Never forget that this sewage is part of Fourteen Eyes, and what they do to their citizens is also being done to US!!!
They want to read our e-mails and social media posts. Give it to them. Some years ago, I started appending a phony MIME file to my e-mails. It was just a block of 1,024 random characters. A few years later, a friend who worked at one of those three letter agencies that didn't exist, called and asked what I was sending. When I told him, he asked if I would please stop. Apparently they had been attempting to decode my "secret" messages.
That lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement is called a court order.
Which doesn't produce anything at all in a truly encrypted system of messaging.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia!
Not stupid. Evil. Or more probably, both stupid and evil.
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