cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/16595505
- Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder for Europol
- PET-enabled home routing allows for secure communication, hindering law enforcement’s ability to intercept and monitor communications
- Europol suggests solutions such as disabling PET technologies and implementing cross-border interception standards to address the issue.
“lawful interception” is a fallacy.
If it’s written in the law, it’s lawful. You can of course (and should!) debate about the morality of the diverse forms of lawful interception, but a blanket statement like ‘“lawful interception” is a fallacy’, is a fallacy in of itself.
Laws do not, did not ever, guarantee interception. It always allowed the police to try to intercept. The police hid bugs, tapped wires. Never in history the police said "for lawful interception to happen, all phones must come with preinstalled wiretap. The implication that “communications systems are too secure, there has to be a backdoor for lawful interception” is a fallacy.
PET-enabled home routing
Oh, apparently it’s a “5G” thing. Perhaps everyone in Europe knows that already. Apparently the design of the new network is complicated enough that they’ve accidentally left room for just a little bit of user privacy. Europol claims to have become dependent on the situation where people using mobile phones have none at all.
I get that that’s bad and that shouldn’t be.
But there just have been too many cases of unlawful interception (NSA and Criminal). So I personally don’t think we should move back away from encryption
Oh, so, keep doing it? Even harder? Gotcha.
We’re back to “privacy is a good thing even if it enables ‘criminals’”? Yesterday there was rather a lot of negativity towards GNU Taler and other means of transferring money privately because it enabled tax evasion and such.
Gnu taler doesn’t enable tax evasion if I am not mistaken. Vendors income is public I think.
“Enable tax evasion” = “Not let the government have 100% viewability of every financial transaction you ever made”? You mean, like cash, a system of payment we have used for over 100 years? We should get rid of that because it “enables tax evasion”?
No thanks, I’d rather live in a world where I can give my friend $5 for buy me some snacks at the store without the government having to get involved. I’d rather not have, at a time when we are experiencing democratic backsliding, my least favorite political party, who happens to be in charge at the moment, be able to see the entirety of the inflows and outflows of the resistance organizations fighting their fascist policies. I’d rather be able to get an abortion and not wonder if my bank is going to snitch on me.
You know who really evades taxes? Those rich fucks who lobby and pay off (or are!) politicians to give them tax loopholes. Or the people in the panama papers. But those aren’t the tax evaders we’re talking about, now are they? Because they’ll never be held accountable to these laws, even though they were doxed publicly as violating them.
These kinds of financial surveillance powers will only be used against plebs, dissidents, and people who the people in power don’t like.
Suck it, Europol.
“The issue” that needs addressing is the obsession our governments have with spying on us.
Endemic end-to-end encryption just means that everyone is now protected from interception.
I’ve been using PGP and friends since the 90s. Most people who LE should be targeting for investigation have likewise been using strong encryption since the 90s.
Most cases get a break due to the failure of opsec or due to chance or standard gruelling detective work and the fact that people are social animals.
So what exactly is Europol arguing here?
I wonder if the reason the headline has to specify “lawful” has anything to do with it 🤔
as a neteng for 20+ years, what the hell is “home routing”
Home routing is when you connect a cable to your PC and the wall. Your home then uses that connection to join the Dark Web, and you allow hackers to stay at your home temporarily to escape the government. Those hackers jump from house to house, evading the authorities.
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