If you break end-to-end encryption, you break privacy. The whole point of end-to-end encryption is that it is completely private. If they force companies to supply a backdoor, that's gone. That's why it is a problem.
You'd be naive to think that companies will not use the then available data of private chats to make a profit.
And you also break the whole backbone of doing *anything* sensitive on the internet. Either you can send an encrypted message on the internet, that could be completely indistinguishable as anything from your credit card info, business documents or ERP except for the recipient, or literally everything is free game to steal and spoof
What I don't get is how they will enforce this? Even if the good faith actors provide a backdoor what prevents somone else from creating a new app with no backdoor?
Google is banning side-loading without first registering the app with them, and Apple already does that. So the EU can force Google and Apple to block non-compliant apps, and it will be difficult to bypass.
Telegram got compromised, what, last year? And a lot of liberals said "oh that's good, get those extremists", before that it was laws on cyberbullying, and even more before that, and most people supported that.
You're only now realizing they're intrusive, but anything you send whether with end-to-end encryption or not was never private. Anything private you may have had stopped being private, if you can manage having a still good internet connection with Tor perhaps you're private but there's always a small risk they suss out your IP if you connect to one of their thingamajigs, so maybe you throw in a VPN, but even then, if they really want to find you they will. Any account you have, the time you log online, how you type, all of that could lead them somewhere.
Of course, you could say "well, I'm not an extremist! I don't need THAT much privacy!" but what if you stumbled upon something you weren't meant to see or have radical ideas (no, not Andrew Tate he's as moderate as a "dissident" can be, I mean someone linked to Iran or the DPRK working as some sort of agent and carrying out terrorist attacks on Israel, which they've done already)? they'll tell you they know who you are, ever cheated on your wife or watched porn alone? They'll use that. Ever bought something? They know that. The Facebook account your parents made you at 7? They found out about it.
Liberal democracy isn't democratic at all. If you pose a problem they'll pressure you or pretend you died in an incident. Ruby Ridge? US experiments on its own troops? Silenced, docs released decades later, whatever. You think believing in Epstein killing himself is some sort of radical theory? It's literally just meant to make you waste time on it, it's very unlikely you'll ever see the files in your lifetime. It's just there to make you think you're this radical, can't-miss-a-thing guy. Not saying it didn't happen, but they purposefully silenced it. On Soyjak Party you can find /information/ on some of his clients btw, it's all public, did the media report that? Did people share it? Let's say they did. What would happen? They'd pressure these people not to say a thing, they'd pressure the judges, they'd only let the information they want to be let out. The media you watch? None of it is independent. The media that is 100% not financed by any country? Still mostly abides by mainstream media standards.
They fought widespread access to all kinds of information by making you think everything that doesn't sit well with them is a conspiracy theory. Any dissident group they infiltrated with the CIA, whether Marxist-Leninist or National Socialist. You don't have freedom, hell let's say it was all unrestricted, you'd still have the same opinions they fed you. Blackrock is considered an antisemitic conspiracy theory for one, do you think Blackrock is great? A lot of people don't criticize it purely because it's labeled as antisemitic, just as they criticize rich people except Soros purely because it's shunned upon.
It's not just companies. It's spread to the people too.
93
u/Krebota The Netherlands 9d ago
If you break end-to-end encryption, you break privacy. The whole point of end-to-end encryption is that it is completely private. If they force companies to supply a backdoor, that's gone. That's why it is a problem.
You'd be naive to think that companies will not use the then available data of private chats to make a profit.