Ive always wondered how it is ever planned to enforce it, is a police team going to bust down my door:
PUT THE UNBACKDOORED LIBSSL DOWN!
Sure companies like meta will comply instantly but everyone that doesn’t use big tech (including criminals) can just continue doing whatever? Why would criminals the one the law claims to stop use backdoored clients?
Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.
I was also thinking the same, but they don’t really need to enforce it proactively. By making it “illegal”, they can just pick up people they don’t like and force them to unlock it. If they don’t - believe it or not, straight to jail. Basically what is happening now in many countries, but legal.
Ive always wondered how it is ever planned to enforce it, is a police team going to bust down my door:
Sure companies like meta will comply instantly but everyone that doesn’t use big tech (including criminals) can just continue doing whatever? Why would criminals the one the law claims to stop use backdoored clients?
Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.
In Mexico the cartels built their own phone towers
https://hackers-arise.com/mobile-hacking-how-the-mexican-drug-cartels-built-their-own-cellular-infrastructure-to-avoid-surveillance/
This article cites no sources at all, no?
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/special-report-drug-cartel-narco-antennas-make-life-dangerous-for-mexicos-ce-idUSKCN24G1DM/
Criminals will exploit back doors.
I was also thinking the same, but they don’t really need to enforce it proactively. By making it “illegal”, they can just pick up people they don’t like and force them to unlock it. If they don’t - believe it or not, straight to jail. Basically what is happening now in many countries, but legal.