Announced chat control by the EU

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

On 10/6/25 14:47, Daniel Brandes via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Regarding the implementation in the EU, in my understanding, the 
> scanning is baked in on an OS level with pattern recognition, and the 
> forwarding to law enforcement agencies happens fully automated (so 
> only the more obscure OSs, with dev communities instead of single 
> legal entities behind them, may remain free). 'Client-side' in that 
> sense of course means your transfer encryption, e.g. PGP, remains 
> intact; your privacy nevertheless won't.

This sounds like it is only applicable to mobile devices.

In any case, there is a simple solution to that kind of OS-level 
backdoor:  the classic "paranoid" PGP setup where you keep your keys on 
a separate, offline, air-gapped box and Internet-connected machines only 
see your encrypted traffic.

I also highly doubt that Debian or Gentoo would ever tolerate such 
malware in their distributions.


-- Jacob