David Davis & Caroline Lucas MPs are supporting an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would seek to protect the end-to-end encrypted services. Many parents rely on these apps to safely and securely share family pictures. #onlinesafetybill #encryption #privacy #E2EE

Sounds good...

"Searching through email content in an end-to-end encrypted email provider is no easy feat. Because Skiff does not have access to any user emails, all search queries have to be performed client-side. To make this possible, we’ve developed innovative search indexing algorithms that work in the browser, in Skiff’s Windows and macOS apps, and in our iOS and Android native apps."

#Skiff, 2023

https://skiff.com/blog/a-whole-new-search

#email #E2EE #search

@lued @cryptoparty Wenn sich was findet, sag' Bescheid...

Ich bezweifle allerdings dass es etwas in der Richtung gibt.

Ich selbst nutze echte #E2EE mit Self-Custody der Keys [#GnuPG] also macht es wenig Sinn was anderes zu machen.

Zumal ich eh auf #Arbyte mein Zeug mit denselben Keys signiere...

@kubikpixel

@briar @cwtch @simplex

Warum nicht einfach XMPP?

#session #opensource #farright #signal #tor #p2p #e2ee #verschlusselt #thread #messenger

Just published an encryption scheme/proposal for my end-to-end encrypted social media app. Always curious for feedback:

https://github.com/bianchidotdev/bubbli#encryption-scheme

Diagram: https://github.com/bianchidotdev/bubbli/blob/main/encryption-scheme.mmd

#e2ee #socialmedia #encryption #cryptography

The government knows and has admitted it cannot scan messages without undermining or breaking encryption, but wants to pretend otherwise. It is playing us for fools. #onlinesafetybill #encryption #e2ee

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/omnishambles-over-encrypted-messages-continues/

It’s been a confusing week for those of us trying to understand what the UK Government is doing with its plans to break end-to-end encryption. This article by @jim and I tried to make sense of the omnishambles https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/omnishambles-over-encrypted-messages-continues/ #spyclause #e2ee #onlinesafetybill #privacy #encryption

Michelle Donelan, MP (with the Home Office in addition to DSIT) "said further work to develop the technology was needed but added that government-funded research had shown it was possible. This, incidentally is entirely untrue: their researchers were at pains to explain that the technology is unfit for purpose:"

#OnlineSafetyBill #E2EE #encryption

Join #OpenRightsGroup https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
FF @JamesBaker @openrightsgroup

Omnishambles continues. #OnlineSafetyBill #E2EE

@JamesBaker of @openrightsgroup writes "At the eleventh hour of the Online Safety Bill’s passage through Parliament, the Government has found itself claiming to have both conceded that it won’t do anything stupid and that it may well press ahead if it wants to. It is in a total mess over its proposals to break end-to-end encryption and scan our private messages.."
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/omnishambles-over-encrypted-messages-continues/

The spy clause remains in the UK's #OnlineSafetyBill. This "could see the private sector being mandated to carry out mass surveillance of private digital communications. It would leave everybody in the UK – including human rights organisations and activists – vulnerable to malicious hacking attacks and targeted surveillance."

Read more from Amnesty on why the encryption-busting clause threatens personal and national security. It must be removed entirely.

#e2ee #privacy

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/uk-spy-clause-in-online-safety-bill-must-be-addressed-before-it-becomes-law/

Element X preview is now on Android too!, https://element.io/blog/element-x-android-preview/.

After iOS, Element X beta is now available on Android. Go rush it, break the app, report bugs, let's all get fun together! Oh, and it's extremely fast, don't be surprised.

#matrix #decentralized #messaging #e2ee #element

The UK government has (at least for now) decided to back off a piece of the #OnlineSafetyBill legislation that would have outright banned end-to-end encryption and would have been a major disaster in all means. https://archive.ph/HDnUa

It's surely not over though as this piece here rightfully explains why. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/06/osb-encryption-scanning-feasibility/

#E2EE #encryption #privacy #security #freedom

ORG, along with privacy activists, tech companies and security experts, have long warned that it isn't possible to scan messages that use end-to-end encryption without undermining privacy and security.

While this is a huge victory for all campaigners who've highlighted the dangers of the spy clause to be used for mass surveillance, the powers could still be used in the furture.

✊ We continue to fight for the removal of the spy clause.

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #e2ee #surveillance #ukpolitics

ORG, along with privacy activists, tech companies and security experts, have long warned that it isn't possible to scan messages that use end-to-end encryption without undermining privacy and security.

While this is a huge victory for all campaigners who've highlighted the dangers of the spy clause to be used for mass surveillance, the powers could still be used in the furture.

✊ We continue to fight for the removal of the spy clause.

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #e2ee #surveillance #ukpolitics

🚨 BREAKING: The UK government has confirmed it is rowing back on its plans to scan private messages.

They've finally back down with an announcement that Ofcom won't use powers in the spy clause contained in the Online Safety Bill until it's 'technically feasible' to do so.

They've conceded that no current technology exists that would protect privacy or avoid breaking encryption.

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #e2ee #surveillance #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/government-admits-spy-clause-cant-be-used-safely/

This statement from Apple is clear. Scanning private messages is "a slippery slope of unintended consequences".

The UK's parliamentarians need to listen to this before they pass the Online Safety Bill and put all of our privacy and security at risk.

#e2ee #OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

Without end-to-end encryption "the UK becomes more vulnerable to attacks which can expose personal information and, especially in the case of LGBTQ+ youth, lead to non-consensual outings with potentially disastrous consequences."

Secure messaging provides essential security both within the UK and to people living in oppressive regimes in other countries.

The spy clause in the Online Safety Bill threatens the #lgbtq community.

#OnlineSafetyBill #e2ee #lgbt #ukpolitics

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-online-safety-bill-will-endanger-lgbtq-people-on-a-global-scale/165913/

@awaspnest Haha, glad you like it. (And thank you for the kind words.) :)

There’s more to do but the goal is to use it to enable people (including me) to build peer-to-peer Small Web sites.

Here’s a very simple example of what I mean:

https://ar.al/2023/02/20/end-to-end-encrypted-kitten-chat/

:kitten: 💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #peerToPeer #e2ee #web #personalWeb

Freedom of expression includes the right to receive information to form opinions.

Keeping children safe online is a worthy goal, but we need to ensure that we do not restrict children’s right to information by banning them from large swathes of the internet.

Take action to defend freedom of expression: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-defend-democratic-free-expression

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #surveillance #e2ee #ukpolitics #freedomofexpression

Platforms could choose to filter out vast amounts of content to allow young people on the site without age verification.

Or, they could exclude UK users entirely, rather than risk liability or expensive and untried age estimation or content moderation systems.

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #surveillance #e2ee #ukpolitics