• ExLisper@linux.community
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    1 year ago

    There’s a lot of drama about it so I finally took a closer look and yeah, it’s not as bad as everyone tries to make it.

    “The only way to comply with the law, experts say, would be to put so-called client-side scanning software on users’ devices to examine messages before they’re sent, which would make the encryption largely useless.”

    Locally scanning before sending would not make encryption useless. Does spellchecking a message make encryption useless? What this is all about is hashing a picture someone is about to send and checking in a DB of known CP material. If it’s a match you report it. It does not invalidate encryption, it doesn’t send anything from the device unencrypted.

    If there’s anything else in this law that could be problematic please tell. The articles I saw don’t say anything else so for me it looks like a non issue.