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234 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 11 Sep \ parent \ on: Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured tech
They'll just change the name and "incorporate feedback".
Remember, France used to be against this too, then a deal was made by making it "opt-in", so that one could use encrypted chats, but if opted out of the surveillance, not encrypt images. Which is technically dumb anyway, because if I properly encrypt a file, I can send you the ciphertext in base64 as a text message and no one will ever know. Unfortunately, the most important technical objection (circumventing encryption for the masses) didn't change with that deal.
I expect a deal to be made once more in a follow-up round. Politicians can be very coercible when their future power is threatened. So all the pro-police-state Euros need to do is to find a weak spot, exploit it, and then 600M people will find themselves surveilled - all because a bunch of Brussels Sprouts weigh power > integrity.