cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60408809

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Additionally, the Commission envisions expanding Europol’s role, effectively transforming it into a European equivalent of the FBI, with enhanced operational capabilities.

Granting Europol the ability to access encrypted data can only mean one thing: Brussels is proposing some form of government-mandated backdoor for communication platforms protected by end-to-end encryption.

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    19 days ago

    Normal people can too, you can run an xmpp server on a fucking potato.

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        18 days ago

        Don’t host it on clearnet :p

        Also it depends don’t their definition of what a platform is, they might only be targeting commercial operations.