Diego F. Aranha

Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet

Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy

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The “age verification” and the “human identification” problem are the same problem. It upsets me to be around people who think they’re working on the first, but don’t understand they’re actually working on the second.

Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet

"Governments across the world are expanding surveillance, weakening encryption, and curtailing freedoms under the guise of staunching the proliferation of sexual images and videos of children" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/chat-control-child-abuse-internet-privacy #Privacy

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Germany has agreed to stop ChatControl for now, due to huge amounts of public pressure. Good job! The bad news is that it could come back as soon as December, and the German government has interpreted the feedback as a need to “moderate” the proposal.

I hear that the EU ChatControl situation is going better today. I cannot believe how close the EU has gotten to passing this crazy regulation.

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

This dude is a hero: www.politico.eu/article/one-...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

You're a much better person than me, Dan :)

Someone please make me understand how Denmark can be at the same time freaking out about hybrid war with Russia AND pushing for government-mandated spyware as Chat Control.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Sounds just like the Justice Minister of Denmark, who is pushing Chat Control with a crime-free society narrative.

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<<“brain gain” is exactly what we have experienced. As Danish companies have succeeded globally, they have sought out the best and brightest in their respective fields from across the world. The number of foreign workers in Copenhagen has more than doubled in the last decade.>> @madshvid.bsky.social

The battle to stop Chat Control continues, act now! Unfortunately, the battle against Chat Control continues this month. For human rights, for civil liberties, for safety, and for democracy, this privacy-wrecking proposal must be stopped. We need your ...

"Bad news: The proposal is going forward to be voted on on October 14th, and there's still no blocking minority achieved, as Germany reverted its position to undecided.

Good news: There is still time to fight back!"

Shut this monstrosity down NOW

Eu li podosfera errado e bateu uma tristeza profunda repentina :(

Canada’s Strong Borders Act Threatens Strong Encryption On September 15, 2025, CDT joined civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including members of the Global Encryption Coalition, to urge the Canadian government to withdraw Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act. Parts 14 and 15 of the bill would grant broad powers to compel backdoors into encrypted services and expand warrantless access […]

Earlier this week, CDT joined civil society orgs, companies, & cybersecurity experts, including members of the @globalencryption.org, to urge the Canadian government to withdraw Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act.

The impact of Alfred Menezes in cryptography is profound. Francisco RH and I are organizing an afternoon session in Latincrypt to celebrate Alfred's career:

menezesfest.info

If you're coming to Medellín, consider attending!

Oh damn, let me repost.

If ChatControl needs national security exemptions to *not* weaken the security of the state, what makes one believe that it will *not* weaken the security of everyone else?

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I know it’s been said again and again, but what does it say about ChatControl that its backers keep explicitly *exempting* law enforcement and national security accounts from content scanning?

The EU has never been closer to agreeing on Chat Control – here's how we got here and what’s at stake The Danish version of Chat Control is thought to have the best chances of becoming law since 2022

Burn it with fire

Brazil bluesky today:

I'm sympathetic, but I do think it is charming how teh lawyerz believe that you can legislate your way out of a threat model.

"No one would ever do that, it's illegal."

The EU Parliament has published a new proposal for Chat Control to mass-surveil all digital communication in Europe. The proposal is ineffective, weakens secure communication, and violates basic human privacy. This must be stopped immediately. #ChatControl
csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

The EU wants to spend your money to assemble a giant mass surveillance machine with little effect on harm against children. Chat Control is not effective, weakens security for all and does not respect privacy. Contact your EU representatives and let them know.

csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

More than 500 researchers have signed an open letter against the dangerous EU proposal on chat control.

The proposal remains ineffective, undoes decades of results in E2E encryption, and threatens the privacy of half a billion citizens.

csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

It was too late when I figured out this was not about cryptography.
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Até porque quem está decidindo sobre a implantação são os próprios governos, que nunca vão admitir poderem ser maliciosos. De qualquer forma, nem a versão honesta funciona porque a taxa de falsos positivos é proibitiva.