The EU Court ruled that “Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users’ electronic communications. The Court takes note of the dangers of restricting encryption described by many experts in the field.” Any requirement to build in backdoors to encryption protocols for law enforcement agencies could also be taken advantage of by malicious actors.
The EU Court of Human Rights’ also builds on their acknowledgment that “mass surveillance does not appear to have contributed to the prevention of terrorist attacks, contrary to earlier assertions made by senior intelligence officials.”
Or welcome e2ee in skype.
We have less than 1 month left on the deadline. Which direction do you think this is going to go?
Matrix bridges already do this. They take what would be e2ee and then decrypt the message and dump it into another app unencrypted. This is how legislators break encryption.
Obviously. For e2ee to function both clients should use same e2ee scheme. In theory you can e2ee matrix with xmpp, but in practice either matrix client should support xmpp message format or xmpp client should support matrix message format.
Still better than nothing and you still get e2ee between matrix users anyway.