• Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder for Europol
  • PET-enabled home routing allows for secure communication, hindering law enforcement’s ability to intercept and monitor communications
  • Europol suggests solutions such as disabling PET technologies and implementing cross-border interception standards to address the issue.
  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    lawful interception

    Idk bout that. Usually you get a warrant for wiretapping and then you pay someone to install it. If they are trying to break encryption or identifying users, that means they inherently are doing something the law does not favor.

    Let’s also acknowledge that if encryption is bad because it cannot be broken, that means encryption is pretty good at what it should do.

    Breaking encryption is never something you do for the right reasons.

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      4 months ago

      Breaking encryption is never something you do for the right reasons.

      Uhhh ransomware?

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      4 months ago

      I read this the other day… the issue they face is on the warrant side, cross border investigations have a 120 day lead time. So instead of actually integrating police and making sure time sensitive investigations get treated as such… They whine about PET.

      EuroPol seems to be something like the FBI… who operate across all US states. But in the EU the countries are still very separate and require such ridiculous things as proof and due process. And that’s fine… It just needs to be sped up.

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        4 months ago

        Europol is merely a clearing house, standards process and coordinating agency for how national police forces work together across the EU states. It has very, very little power. Unfortunately.

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            4 months ago

            You’re assuming the national services are better, I suppose. In my experience it’s been the EU who has struck a better balance between privacy and investigative powers than the crap they’re pushing for nationally.

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      4 months ago

      Breaking encryption is never something you do for the right reasons.

      Cracking Enigma was something that needed to been done.

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        4 months ago

        Kinda drives home another point too. Breaking someone else’s encryption is something you do to enemies. If you’re trying to break my encryption communication or installing a backdoor, you’re an enemy, simple as that.

        My eternal thanks to FOSS, and open encryption standards.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Everybody vote for this guy for president.

      I mean really…who else are you going to vote for? Spiderman? Yeah,I would too, but we have a two term limit!