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"EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to change course on its recently announced “Technology Roadmap on Encryption.” The roadmap, part of the EU’s ProtectEU strategy, discusses new ways for law enforcement to access encrypted data. That framing is dangerously flawed.

Let’s be clear: there is no technical “lawful access” to end-to-end encrypted messages that preserves security and privacy. Any attempt to circumvent encryption—like client-side scanning—creates new vulnerabilities, threatening the very people governments claim to protect.

This letter is significant in not just its content, but in who signed it. The breadth of the coalition makes one thing clear: civil society and the global technical community overwhelmingly reject the idea that weakening encryption can coexist with respect for fundamental rights."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eus-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less SafeEFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to change course on its recently announced “Technology Roadmap on Encryption.” The roadmap, part of the EU’s ProtectEU strategy, discusses new ways for...
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@sundogplanets Yes, and that's a reason why #Megaconstellations like it (and others as well as predecessors like #ICO) are garbage.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendrell

Compare that to say #Iridium which launched with 77 satellites and those lasted 25 years, way longer than scheduled, and got recently replaced with a new generation instead...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_

Not to mention #Starlink is a #SpectrumPollutant and can only serve as means to #sabotage #Fiber deployment #ROI espechally in rural areas, thus increasing #DigitalDivide further by making #FTTB & #FTTH hardee to justify.

en.wikipedia.orgPendrell Corporation - Wikipedia
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@marjolica @utf_7 @dashjackson @froge @arstechnica It'll impact any application that uses #Windows' #CryptoAPI and doesn't come with it's own #Encryption Library and #CertificateManagment.

Needless to say all #Chromium variants and #IE / #Edge are vulnerable to this #Backdoor which exists since at least #WindowsXP to this day!

  • Thus consider said #OS inherently unsafe!

Telegram partners with xAI in a $300M deal to integrate Grok, sharing 50% of in-app subscription revenue. Data from user-Grok interactions may fuel xAI models, raising privacy concerns. Telegram’s limited E2EE, metadata storage, and custom encryption compound the risks.

techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/xai-

TechCrunch · xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunchTelegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app.
#Privacy#Infosec#AI

It Might Actually Be 20 Times Easier for Quantum Computers to Break #Bitcoin, Google Says

Google researchers found that cracking RSA #Encryption—the same tech that secures crypto wallets—needs way fewer quantum resources than anyone thought.

decrypt.co/322128/quantum-comp

security Quantum Quantum Computer bitcoin cryptography Google Research Google Quantum AI
Decrypt · It Might Actually Be 20 Times Easier for Quantum Computers to Break Bitcoin, Google SaysBy Jose Antonio Lanz

The European Comission is looking for feedback on forcing retention of metadata from all communication services for "a reasonable period of time", for purposes of criminal investigation!

Which means encrypted messaging without a backdoor would be illegal if this passes! That's a slippery slope!

That basically means an attacker with some skill could read any data from anyone (correct me if I'm wrong but I think you can infer the content from the metadata in 90% of cases)

For more detail on why it's bad, click the link below and read literally any feedback comment.

Go ahead and give some feedback! You can do so even if you are not an EU citizen!

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r
@soatok @echo_pbreyer @privacy @technology
#Europe #privacy #encryption

European Commission - Have your sayEuropean Commission - Have your sayEuropean Commission - Have your say