Tommaso Gagliardoni
@tomgag@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

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 4 weeks ago

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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Brian Sletten
@bsletten@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Oh dear.

Researchers figure out how to undermine Fiat-Shamir and the Random Oracle Model to validate untrue inputs.

This has quite serious potential implications for blockchain trust although the full extent isn’t yet known.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/

#cryptography #cryptocurrency #cryptomeanscryptography
Brian Sletten
@bsletten@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Oh dear.

Researchers figure out how to undermine Fiat-Shamir and the Random Oracle Model to validate untrue inputs.

This has quite serious potential implications for blockchain trust although the full extent isn’t yet known.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/

#cryptography #cryptocurrency #cryptomeanscryptography
Giacomo Tesio
@giacomo@snac.tesio.it  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A friend with an iPhone want to read and write PGP-encrypted emails: what's the cheapest and simplest approach I can suggest him?

I know nothing about Apple products, but I guess they have a default mail agent. Yet I can't find online how to configure PGP.

#Fedihelp #iPhone #security #pgp #cryptography
Risotto Bias
@risottobias@toot.risottobias.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

somebody should make a better ICE tracker, for fun.

maybe with ZKP.

maybe over Tor.

maybe P2P.

importantly:

1. it should have a good site that gets the point across
2. it should be easy to use and understand
3. it should do the primary function

&

4. it should fix what you're complaining about the ICE block app (without breaking what the ICE block app already does)

good documentation, PR & UX outwin "more sound designs" every time.

#ICE#ICEBlock#P2P#Cryptography#Tor #graphene
Risotto Bias
@risottobias@toot.risottobias.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

somebody should make a better ICE tracker, for fun.

maybe with ZKP.

maybe over Tor.

maybe P2P.

importantly:

1. it should have a good site that gets the point across
2. it should be easy to use and understand
3. it should do the primary function

&

4. it should fix what you're complaining about the ICE block app (without breaking what the ICE block app already does)

good documentation, PR & UX outwin "more sound designs" every time.

#ICE#ICEBlock#P2P#Cryptography#Tor #graphene