German Minister Wants Secure Messengers To Decrypt Chats

German Minister Wants Secure Messengers To Decrypt Chats (bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 5.3 years ago by roznak

8 comments

Kr3mlin 5.3 years ago

Oh man I just recently transitioned to Threema from Wire. Now have to look after another alternative. Eventually nothing will be truly encrypted.

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Delacourt 5.3 years ago

From a technical standpoint, how could they stop this? Couldn't people still send encrypted messages using outdated versions of encrypted messaging apps?

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alalzia 5.3 years ago

How about Germany make everything easily accessible to the public including military and secret service stuff ? why do we have to share our secrets when the authorities don't ?

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Ghetto_Shitlord 5.3 years ago

Choice is an illusion, created by those who have power over those who do not.

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Wiserman 5.3 years ago

Decrypting chats would sure provide a lot of information. It takes a long time to go through thousands and thousands of chats. Probably they would search text with suspicious keywords like "kill", "anti-Germany", "adolf" and "rammstein."

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roznak 5.3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS) or State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), commonly known as the Stasi (IPA: [ˈʃtaːziː]),[n 1] was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies ever to have existed.

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