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EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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If it's client side then pedos will just strip it out and keep on going. It's a giant waste of time.
Or, you know, trivially circumvent it? Compress media, break up URLs? I don't understand how this could possibly be effective.
It can't be effective. The risk of false-positives is huge.
And all but guaranteed. I know I would protest this, and I'm sure there are enough like me that this would waste a lot of time for police.