• Opisek@lemmy.world
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    How would he like for his messages to be surveilled? The people pushing chat control conveniently leave out the detail that they decided to exempt themselves from this measure.

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    Why do people not realize how unacceptable all that shit is?

    I mean imagine in the old days before email someone said that they wanted to open all mail packages and examine the contents as well as make a copy of all letters sent, personal or professional, that were sent through the mail? People would have been right outraged. Is it that because somehow posting things on a cell phone or computer makes them feel… less real?

    Also every fucking time I see shit like this I am reminded of an old comic from Mad Magazine… it featured a young office boy talking to the sleazy manager. He says ‘hey, I heard you started out just like me, and now you’re practically running the whole company, can you give me some advice?’

    And he responds ‘well, for starters… make sure you read EVERYONES personal letters.’

    I was a young kid when I first saw it and I didn’t understand. But now I fucking do.

  • hector@lemmy.today
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    All of the west has had conservative aristocrats take over their mainstream parties, the only reform vote is the far right misdirecting anger from the plutocracy to immigrants and everything else.

    Without getting a popular reform option fascists will seize the entire west with russia and the us helping behind the scenes, and fix elections like in hungary or however and we will not be able to get rid of them even as they get worse every cycle.

    The western european countries will fall like dominoes with current leadership and lack thereof. We need to organize first, then find and groom real leaders, then take elections and direct anger to it’s sources, the super rich.

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    The consequence of Chat conttrol is a next step to open and control your post cards and any other privat correspondence with the same stupid argument of “security”. Encrypted comunication exist for a good reason.

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    1 day ago

    Alternate title: Danish dipshit fails basic computer literacy test, somehow stumbles into a parliament position.

    Also, if he’s the chief architect, then this is what he’s building:

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      apparently nominally a member of a social-democratic party

      When I was younger, I believed that social-democratic parties were better than conservative ones on matters of civil liberties. I stand corrected on that.

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        As a dane: The social democratic party in Denmark has changed a lot in the last 10-20 years. It used to be much more left-leaning. Nowadays it’s essentially a middle party. They adopted quite a few policies from the right wing (especially on the immigration area), in an attempt to keep the power basically, and it has worked immensely well, in the sense that many, many people have voted for them.

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        SocDem is still capitalist. Capitalist politicians answer to capital.

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        This is why it’s so important to vote based on policy, not party names or “teams”. Parties can name themselves whatever they want (within reason) and they evolve and change as well. Canada right now is a good example. The current Liberal party is basically the Conservative party of the 90s. Just look at policy and leave the brand out of it.

        Never forget, North Korea calls itself The Democratic Republic of North Korea. The Nazis were called The National Socialist German Worker’s Party. Words have meaning, even when they don’t.

      • themurphy@lemmy.ml
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        Just because the guy is a fucktard, doesnt mean the party is. And the other way around.

        Politics is not a “team sport” and we should not treat it like that.

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          Parties choose whom to nominate as ministers.

          I’m not a voter in Denmark and not familiar with Danish politics; this kind of thing would certainly cause me to vote for a different party.

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    Some context, which I’m sure will be downvoted because we don’t like chat control.

    The Danes currently hold the rotating presidency for the council. As such they are required to be the architects of the council position, good initiatives and bad.

    The EU holds countries that are against government access to chat services and countries that believe access should be routine and warrant-free.

    The Danish “architect of chat control” is thus required, by EU law, to define a compromise position and see if that can be voted through in the council.

    The compromise position is a combination of “scanning at source” using both known fingerprints and AI, with a warrant based access process for police sources.

    As a compromise position that’s possible passable in parliament and council.

    I personally think the whole thing the entire thing is unworkable in practice. But the Danes are getting involved because they have to.

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      He doesn’t have to go to the press with authoritarian statements defending chat control. This is what he said:

      “We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone’s civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services.”

      This is Putin-style authoritarianism coming from Peter Hummelgaard.

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        Yeah what’s next, microphones that listen to everything we say?

        East Berlin and the STASI remembers.

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        “We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone’s civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services.”

        How in the name of fuck anyone thinks they can prevent encryption is beyond me. That ship sailed 30 years ago. People who want it will find a way.

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          The problem is that they don’t have to prevent encryption at all…

          Many governments are already recording and storing incredible amounts of your Internet traffic.

          With this new legislation they want to require all companies, that offer some form of encrypted communication, to submit all the messages for scanning before they are encrypted. So they want to force Facebook and many others to actually intercept the messages before they get “end-to-end” encrypted, so they can get scanned by AI and other systems to look for CSAM.

          Of course they can’t prevent encryption… Anyone can get some encryption software that doesn’t submit the messages to scanning before encrypting…

          Now you as a person have the options of either using a platform that scans your messages, or finding something that actually offers privacy.

          If the government then decides that they want to investigate you, then they just dig into their trove of intercepted messages. If you only used scanned services, then they can see all your messages and probably find something in them to prosecute you over. But if you used any encrypted services they don’t have access to, then they can just start prosecuting you for using encryption that they can’t spy on…

          In either case you lose, and they gain the ability to practically put anyone they want behind bars.

          And who knows who will wield these tools at a later point, and what they might decide should be illegal, which they can then immediately dig for in all their previously stored and scanned messages.

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            Yeah the criminals will quickly find ways to avoid using services that scan client side is my main issue.

            I’m technical enough that I can too if the time ever comes. I’m in the “nothing criminal to hide, but fuck you you’re not seeing my texts anyway” camp.

            And who knows who will wield these tools at a later point

            History is so, so full of examples of this being abused by what were originally well intentioned motives (Jews in The Netherlands rounded up because of census information etc.). I just do not trust any future government and neither should anyone else.

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      They’ve had the rotating presidency for 2 months, Hummelgaard has been mad that police can’t see what immigrant teenagers are talking about on Whatsapp for years.

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    mrrrrreow meow :3

    What if I go into politics and start mrrreow meow :3 in EU parliament?