God the EU Commission is exhausting. Do these people seriously think they can demand a “lawful access” backdoor in US-hosted messaging apps, and that US intelligence *won’t* use that tool to relentlessly spy on EU interests? https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-crime-denmark-peter-hummelgaard-europe-privacy/
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But yeah, it's dumb.
the cia cant spy on its own citizens but gshq/mi6 can. gchq cant spy on it's own citizens but the cia can...
allegedly...
We are not America or China. It's even more important in times like these to emphasise that by dropping this stupid totalitarian nonsense.
Let us be a safe haven, not a prison.
So much R&D going into trying to improve secure communications will be of academic interest, only.
https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/
There's no way to build such a system which can handle a large volume of access requests and still prevent exploits. It will either get infiltrated or hacked eventually
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/calea-was-a-national-security-disaster-waiting-to-happen
But otherwise yes, there's no rational way to define "lawful access" which doesn't either allow trivial circumvention, or which goes overboard by banning everything. Plenty of E2EE P2P VPN solutions
I interpret the EU Commission aspirations as the EU wanting to have access to communications from/to EU.
Other than that, implementation matters... E.g. GSM LI features have existed since the dawn of mankind 😏