• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    Steganography. There’s more than one way to protect your communication.

    And encryption in transit is better than no encryption at all (assuming the baddies don’t already have full access to your phone data).

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      44 minutes ago

      assuming the baddies don’t already have full access to your phone data

      That’s the whole point of Chat Control 2.0

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        32 minutes ago

        Not quite; Chat Control hearkens back to Apple’s doomed attempt at on-device CSAM filtering - the idea is that on-device images and message contents would be scanned for known hashes. This means a nation state could go fishing on devices for known content, but it wouldn’t allow them to indiscriminately sift through all the content at rest — they’d have to know what they were looking for.

        That’s where the steganography comes in, because the hash based approach will fail if the content they’re looking for is obscured in some manner.