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Ruben De Smet
@rubdos@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

⚠️ #ChatControl2 threatens private messaging across the EU.

As a #Whisperfish maintainer & privacy researcher, I’m alarmed: the new “Danish” proposal forces mass scanning & client-side #backdoors into #encrypted apps — while exempting governments & military.

As @signalapp says, this would “break encryption as we know it” — and we won’t comply.

Time’s critical: govs lock positions by 12 Sept; vote is 14 Oct.

👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu#ChatControl#CSAM#Privacy
Ruben De Smet
@rubdos@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

⚠️ #ChatControl2 threatens private messaging across the EU.

As a #Whisperfish maintainer & privacy researcher, I’m alarmed: the new “Danish” proposal forces mass scanning & client-side #backdoors into #encrypted apps — while exempting governments & military.

As @signalapp says, this would “break encryption as we know it” — and we won’t comply.

Time’s critical: govs lock positions by 12 Sept; vote is 14 Oct.

👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu#ChatControl#CSAM#Privacy
MissConstrue
@MissConstrue@mefi.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Y’all! The Executive Director of the #Israel Cyber Directorate, which is a government agency that operates under the office of Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu, Tom #Alexandrovich, was apprehended and faced felony charges of “Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Act,” according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announcement yesterday.

Naturally, a child sex predator from Israel was immediately released and returned to Israel where he cannot be extradited, and the Israeli government is denying he was arrested. He was in town for the Black Hat conference, where he posted pics. His social media and LinkedIn presence has been scrubbed as of now, but the internet is forever, so screenshots are a thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official

#blackHat #infosec #csam #predator#RulesForTheeButNotForMe
MissConstrue
@MissConstrue@mefi.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Y’all! The Executive Director of the #Israel Cyber Directorate, which is a government agency that operates under the office of Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu, Tom #Alexandrovich, was apprehended and faced felony charges of “Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Act,” according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announcement yesterday.

Naturally, a child sex predator from Israel was immediately released and returned to Israel where he cannot be extradited, and the Israeli government is denying he was arrested. He was in town for the Black Hat conference, where he posted pics. His social media and LinkedIn presence has been scrubbed as of now, but the internet is forever, so screenshots are a thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official

#blackHat #infosec #csam #predator#RulesForTheeButNotForMe
Tommaso Gagliardoni
@tomgag@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp last month

The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends.

This time we are dangerously close to lose. The "Child Sexual Abuse" (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed "ChatControl", will be voted AGAIN this October, and many countries who opposed it last year are now undecided. The proposal at its roots aims at allowing authorities to break end-to-end encryption for the usual reason: "because of the children". As a father of two, I am disgusted by this recurring, cheap rhetoric.

What you can do: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

#eu#CSA#CSAM#ChatControl #privacy #security #surveillance #authoritarianism #crypto #cryptography #civilrights

An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence. Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.
An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence. Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.
An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence. Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.
Tommaso Gagliardoni
@tomgag@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp last month

The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends.

This time we are dangerously close to lose. The "Child Sexual Abuse" (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed "ChatControl", will be voted AGAIN this October, and many countries who opposed it last year are now undecided. The proposal at its roots aims at allowing authorities to break end-to-end encryption for the usual reason: "because of the children". As a father of two, I am disgusted by this recurring, cheap rhetoric.

What you can do: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

#eu#CSA#CSAM#ChatControl #privacy #security #surveillance #authoritarianism #crypto #cryptography #civilrights

An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence. Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.
An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence. Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.
An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence. Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.
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@chiefbongo@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@9to5Mac now this would be a reason to change to GrapheneOS. Even if on-device, Apple has no right to scan and censure anything, unless activated - AI is never just on-device and we've had this subject before.

Another reason not to upgrade to iPhone 17 too, as Apple cultivates unpredictable policies - one might just end up with a piece of scrap-metal in your hands overnight.

#Chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle#StopScanningMe#CSAM#Apple#iPhone#iPad #iOS26 #iOS