CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch Intelligence agency weighs in - Bert Hubert's writings
berthub.euA quick update - The European Commission and EU member states have been pondering, for years now, if they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For various reasons it is a horrendous idea to break end to end encryption in this likely highly ineffective way. Variations of the proposal have also included a mandate to perform such scanning of images using AI, and even to also read our text messages to see if we aren’t “grooming” children.
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I guess the real predators are the companies who make those surveillance systems
Average person: “Fuck right off.”
Average person: “OH WELL I GUESS IT’S OKAY THEN.”
That’s why average person sucks, average person doesn’t even care about politics and falls for corrupts’ tricks easily
Dutch spooks gonna get in trouble with the regime lol
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How tf do you even do that? I get how you would on a stock proprietary OS. But there are open OSes, and then how? Doubt something this complex and autonomous could be hidden like the XZ backdoor. If some OS complies - wouldn’t people fork it to remove the malware?
And then there are desktops, which are much easier and more universal to make private…
Failed laws don’t stop libre software. Let them backdoor themselves.
No thanks. I have a business, and I don’t want to be fined for using software thats protected from backdoors.
Too bad politicians don’t have to base their decisions on an expert opinion. Any credible person will answer that this is a bad idea, but the issue is “easy solutions to difficult problems”.
Every time you have a child that’s abused, you have a child that’s abused.
Seems like the solution to this is the normal ways we deal with child abuse: social workers and school counsels.
They’ll just du what they did before - “Our experts say: it’s perfectly safe and secure. No we won’t tell you the names of our experts to protect their privacy and personal safety”