@Saramo , please have a look. If encryption is outlawed, it will harm citizens not criminals. A backdoor EU / Officials can use is a backdoor for all immoral actors.
I wish Finnish politicians -- and especially MEPs and MEP candidates -- took more visible approach to opposing this in general, I'm so bloody tired of writing emails all around to make sure anyone I vote in any relevant elections is in strong opposition to this BS.
Five years of what feels like fighting windmills. Europol has to be the institution I have grown to distrust more than any other European institution, and that includes Orban's government.
@ananas @Saramo Some might, for example mentioned Saramo and colleagues Kyllönen and Andersson but for the fucking nihilists in epp no fucking hope. Salla worked for meta; chat control would be the best for them and the right wing authoritarians. The same with the Finnish reps from other parties. Maybe the greens might flip flop to the rights side but that would be accidental.
We have opposed chat control and have already raised criticism of the new proposal with the responsible commissioner. We are not the only ones, the aforementioned EPP member Salla and the Greens are also critical.
@Saramo @ananas very surprising about Salla! Would have thought her masters voice would have still held sway. Well, here's hoping you guys get to nix it!
Cementing my theory the EU commission is not actually sensible on tech, they just hate tech in any situation and are accidentally right sometimes because of how bad most tech companies are.
how many times will they keep pushing this crap before people have enough and tell them to stop? We know full well that you can’t have secure encryption that only allows ‘lawful’ access, and that any attempts to weaken existing systems will just make things worse.
Sorry, at least you guys understand what’s up and fight for privacy and online rights.
Can't wait for #Orban, and consequently #Putin, to get hold of this:
»This will enable secure #automated exchanges of #fingerprints, #DNA profiles, #vehicle registration data, #facial images, and police #records through EU routers. At national level, Member States need to implement the Information Exchange Directive enhancing information exchange channels for seamless cross-border information flow, while ensuring their integration with Union-level systems, such as SIENA«
> The terrorist threat level in Europe continues to loom. … They target their radicalisation and recruitment efforts specifically towards the most vulnerable sections of our societies and in particular certain young people.
So how about we care about most vulnerable sections of our societies for a change?!
The answer to people acting like our GOP is *not* to start acting like our Democrats.
@EUCommission Seems important you understand this point. Neoliberal fascist-adjacent policy just gives the fascists better tools to kill you with later.
So how do we force our "representatives" to pass a law that makes these kinds of initiatives illegal? If not, they'll just keep trying, becoming sneakier and sneakier until it's the kind of covert drivel we laugh at the US for doing.
"present a Technology Roadmap on encryption to identify and assess technological solutions to enable lawful access to data by law enforcement authorities in 2026"
There's no lawful way to access this without legalizing either breaking encryption (which always fucks up) or backdooring people's end devices (which always fucks up).
I get the desire but there's just no way to do this without fucking things up. You really need to let go of this @EUCommission
Can the EU explain to me how is this going to help law enforcement, exactly? Because if Im a terrorist and I am planing an attack, I can easily send a message without anyone noticing by simply sending a seemingly inoffensive message using specific keywords that only the people I'd be working with knows. And I dont need E2EE for this. Not to mention, PGP, LUKS, etc, are a thing. I can simply sign a text file or something with PGP, or create a loop file as a device and make a LUKS container on it, and share the file.
So I ask again, what good is this thing going to do?
So basically the eurocrats have moved from think of the children excuses to national security excuses. If the government can break the law during an emergency than it will create an emergency to break the law.
The european commission is repackaging #chatcontrol as #protectEU - don't let them change the framing, never use #protectEU, always, always use #chatcontrol - do not let them take control of neither the chats, nor the discussion.
These idiots should be confronted on what is the exact purpose of these laws. If criminals know that chats are being monitored, they are not going to use them. Well, there will be a few fools who will get caught, but overall that won't make any difference. Make them admit that they want Stasi style mass surveillance.
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Hot take: Pirating music is MORE ethical than using Spotify. The artists don't get paid either way, but at least piracy doesn't support exploitative corporations.
@masukomi Personally, this artist has never been more proud of myself than when I found my old band's album on a sketchy Russian torrent site. I called my mom and told her I had arrived as a musician.
That meant that people gave enough of a shit about my music to steal it. My songwriting was so good, my band was so cool, that they just had to have it, and they wouldn't let any barriers stand in their way. To me, that's inspiring. It still sends shivers down my spine.
I've heard of a cracked Spotify app floating around somewhere on the internet that blocks ads without one paying Spotify. That's a form of piracy right there since no one gets paid, and the artists could still see themselves on someone's playlist theoretically lol Then again signing into an app to pirate it sounds like a bad idea
heyoooo! Here in Canada we actually DO PAY artists to pirate!
Not a joke!
We pay a "private copying levy" on recordable media specifically for this. Never pirate onto that external media? No biggie - the money has still gone to artists (well, the recording industry - "58.2% to eligible authors and publishers, 23.8% to eligible performers and 18.0% to eligible record companies."[1])
And yes, that DOES mean it's legal to pirate in Canada! "In conjunction with the levy, the Copyright Act allows individuals to make copies of sound recordings for their own private, non-commercial use."
> It’s okay to copy music onto special Audio CD-R’s, mini-discs, and digital tapes (because royalties have been paid on them) – but not for commercial purposes.
Music theft—or piracy—is constantly evolving as technology changes. Many different actions qualify as piracy, from downloading unauthorized versions of copyrighted music from a file-sharing service to illegally copying music using streamripping softw…
@Rob I love when I can by new music directly from artists I really care about. Bonus points for them offering colored vinyl and stuff. Some even have minimum prices so you add a “tip” if you want (and I usually do). #ShannonCurtis #JDMcPherson #JulianaHatfield
@CaptainFlab Exactly! Strategic support for artists. It's sort of going back in time. We always basically pirated music to share with others, maybe everyone didn't buy it, but they never were, some did though, and that made all the difference - to the artist.
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Since then, Arikoto keeps growing. It’s amazing to see how far I’m progressing with this project in a small amount of time.
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@aZa1905 I'm thankful I don't have that problem. I have to get blood work done multiple times per year, and I like donating blood. I don't even get lightheaded or anything from it.
@aZa1905 i'm not, funnily enough. I have a story that makes even nurses shiver. The penultimate time I got a blood analysis done, the nurse seemed to be inexperienced and when she stuck the needle in, she didn't find the vein, so she had to move the needle inside me to find it. I told this to the nurse at the health center I was in february and she shook her head in surprise lmao, my mom got uber pissed when she heard this too back then.
@mischievoustomato @aZa1905 yeah that's amateur hour shit, and kinda squickish. The guy who did mine today was new, only 3 months on the job, but it was one of the gentlest I've had.
@mischievoustomato @aZa1905 no that's more like a jolt or a jerk or something sudden. I'm trying to describe like, "pull your arms in to your body and get away from the thing" kinda reaction
1 grillion %s ago i got handed an ad for some blood donation place (they also offer money in return so this doesn’t seem like much of donation) perhaps i could like actually go there sometime
@kimapr a lot of blood centers will pay you for plasma, not for whole blood. I forget why exactly, but you could get gift cards and such for it. But yeah, I wouldn't go anywhere that even has a whiff of being skeevy.
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Huubje
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"terrorism"
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"Children"
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.oO( some things never change )
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grob 🇺🇦
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I wish Finnish politicians -- and especially MEPs and MEP candidates -- took more visible approach to opposing this in general, I'm so bloody tired of writing emails all around to make sure anyone I vote in any relevant elections is in strong opposition to this BS.
Five years of what feels like fighting windmills. Europol has to be the institution I have grown to distrust more than any other European institution, and that includes Orban's government.
Markus Ojala
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@Saramo
No, the plan is to create backdoors that only law-enforcement can use! Criminals will still be stoped! /sarcasm
old_man
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ
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in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •CM30
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •how many times will they keep pushing this crap before people have enough and tell them to stop? We know full well that you can’t have secure encryption that only allows ‘lawful’ access, and that any attempts to weaken existing systems will just make things worse.
Sorry, at least you guys understand what’s up and fight for privacy and online rights.
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Ada
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Is a really odd way of writing:
How curious
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katzenberger 🇺🇦
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Not just #ChatControl.
Can't wait for #Orban, and consequently #Putin, to get hold of this:
»This will enable secure #automated exchanges of #fingerprints, #DNA profiles, #vehicle registration data, #facial images, and police #records through EU routers. At national level, Member States need to implement the Information Exchange Directive enhancing information exchange channels for seamless cross-border information flow, while ensuring their integration with Union-level systems, such as SIENA«
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten…
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slotos
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •> The terrorist threat level in Europe continues to loom. … They target their radicalisation and recruitment efforts specifically towards the most vulnerable sections of our societies and in particular certain young people.
So how about we care about most vulnerable sections of our societies for a change?!
Fucking hypocrites.
Frjttr
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Urzl
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •The EU needs to learn from us here in the USA.
The answer to people acting like our GOP is *not* to start acting like our Democrats.
@EUCommission Seems important you understand this point. Neoliberal fascist-adjacent policy just gives the fascists better tools to kill you with later.
Milly
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in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •khobochka
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Rasmus Lindegaard
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •there we have it:
"present a Technology Roadmap on encryption to identify and assess technological solutions to enable lawful access to data by law enforcement authorities in 2026"
In other words no more end to end encryption.
sunsetdriver
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Mysturji
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •‘The EU Commission’s goal is to “access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.”’
@EUCommission
You can’t have both.
Pick one.
Choose carefully.
Tero Hänninen
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in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Anthropy
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •end to end encryption is end to end encryption.
There's no lawful way to access this without legalizing either breaking encryption (which always fucks up) or backdooring people's end devices (which always fucks up).
I get the desire but there's just no way to do this without fucking things up. You really need to let go of this @EUCommission
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Henri Verymetaldev
in reply to Anthropy • • •@anthropy @EUCommission
LOL!!
@K4bergen THIS!! (i've never been overly confident in tech)
ENIGMATICO
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Can the EU explain to me how is this going to help law enforcement, exactly? Because if Im a terrorist and I am planing an attack, I can easily send a message without anyone noticing by simply sending a seemingly inoffensive message using specific keywords that only the people I'd be working with knows. And I dont need E2EE for this. Not to mention, PGP, LUKS, etc, are a thing. I can simply sign a text file or something with PGP, or create a loop file as a device and make a LUKS container on it, and share the file.
So I ask again, what good is this thing going to do?
Steve Holden
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in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •jesterchen42
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Please keep the name "chat control" forever, as suggested by @stf here: chaos.social/@stf/114286068611…
stf
2025-04-05 15:30:14
Peter
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in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Fascism is knocking again. Let's keep the fucking door shut.
Ironic little detail: the link gives me a 403 when accessing through tor.
@mullvadnet
Emu Otori
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Milos
in reply to Mullvad VPN • • •Make them admit that they want Stasi style mass surveillance.
hapx
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