Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says.
  • Martin@feddit.nuEnglish
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    9 months ago

    “While indiscriminate backdoors might be cheaper for the State than alternative investigative measures, they were expensive for society at large on account of the security risks they produced,” EISI told the ECHR.

    It’s great when someone with some sway actually gets it.

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      9 months ago

      EU institutions are pretty great, but sooner or later they’re going to lose the fight against the technofascist nightmare that’s constantly getting pushed on us

      • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Luckily this is not an EU institution, this is an international treaty above the EU. For example, Azerbaijan is a signatory.

        Point is, you can’t easily get it through EU legislation to overturn this, as it would need to cross the ECHR, which it won’t do.