EU Chat Control plans pose 'existential catastrophic risk' to encryption, says Signal | Computer Weekly
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EU Chat Control plans pose 'existential catastrophic risk' to encryption, says Signal | Computer Weekly
""negates the very purpose of encryption""
""massive glaring vulnerabilities""
""Malicious actors will start using this capability to gain access that would simply be unthinkable for them under the current security paradigms of how operating systems have been implemented,""
European proposals would require emailing and messaging services to install client-side machine learning and scanning technologies on phones and computers to identify and report suspected child abuse images. EU member states are divided on the scheme, while cryptographers and security researchers warn that mandatory scanning would create exploitable security vulnerabilities. Signal warned that the measures would negate the purpose of encryption and introduce "massive glaring vulnerabilities" into widely used operating systems. The proposals would rely on hash functions and machine learning to detect known and unknown abusive images and could require OS-level implementation.
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