• @guriinii
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    91 year ago

    Can this be circumvented somehow? And how would apps with end to end encryption work if a person in a non-EU state spoke to someone inside the EU?

    • hackerman
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      161 year ago

      Anything can be circumvented, VPNs, Tor, I2P, and some other more unknown apps like briar. The issue will become will using those services become illegal too, and the barrier of entry becoming too high for those outside of the technical world. Signal will definitely just pull support for the EU, so you’ll have to trick it into thinking you’re not in the EU. But now you’re at risk of running a foul with the law.

      • Fox Trenton
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        31 year ago

        I’m curious if only particular apps/software is going to be monitored this way? I mean, if I encrypt outside a messaging app like Signal or outside mail, using OTP, OpenPGP, AES-256or or something similar, or using a combination of VPN, Tor and Cryptpad för creating messages, meaning that when the message is entered into the monitored app, it is already encrypted?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          That’s exactly why a law like this wouldn’t make sense, even if you don’t care about privacy.

          To enforce a ban of encrypted messaging, any software capable of encryption would have to be banned. Next step almost every existing operating system would have to be banned as well.