European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans? - EU Reporter
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The European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned a general weakeningof secure end-to-end encryption. The judgement argues that encryptionhelps citizens and companies to protect themselves against hacking,theft of identity and personal data, fraud and the unauthoriseddisclosure of confidential information. Backdoors could also beexploited by criminal networks and would seriously jeopardise thesecurity of all users' electronic […]
  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The judgement [sic] argues that encryption helps citizens and companies to protect themselves against hacking, theft of identity and personal data, fraud and the unauthorised disclosure of confidential information.

    Backdoors could also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously jeopardise the security of all users’ electronic communications. There are other solutions for monitoring encrypted communications without generally weakening the protection of all users

    Back doors enable bad actors to access everyone’s systems.