EU Chat Control

On Thompson’s Compiler

Ken warned you in ‘84. Can’t trust code you didn’t write. His compiler backdoor was a joke. EU makes it law. Same shit, different decade.

On Stallman

RMS called it. Every time. “Proprietary software is unjust power.” Now it’s mandated unjust power.

He doesn’t carry a phone. Smart man. You carry a tracking device that reports your thoughts to Brussels. Who’s the fool?

Technical Facts

• You can’t backdoor math
• You can backdoor apps
• Criminals use math
• Citizens use apps
• Guess who gets surveilled

The network was built dumb for a reason. End-to-end meant something. Now they want a man in every middle.

What Works

$ echo "message" | gpg -e -r friend | mail friend

No app store. No terms of service. No scanning. Try to regulate that.

The Real Problem

This catches idiots and innocents. Real criminals switched to one-time pads the day this was announced. You’re building a surveillance state to catch people too stupid to use proper crypto. Congratulations.

Child protection is sudo for tyrants. Works every time.

Solution

1. Don’t use their shit
2. Run your own shit
   
3. Compile from source
4. Trust nobody

My mail server doesn’t speak to Brussels. My packets route around damage. The EU can legislate all they want.

They asked me to add client-side scanning. I said I already have it:

$ grep -r "illegal" ~/mail

There. Client scanned it. Happy?

End

Every warning we gave, ignored. Every principle we built, violated. Every protection we coded, backdoored.

The EU can’t mandate trust. They can only mandate broken systems. So we’ll keep building unbroken ones. On old hardware. Without their permission.

My ThinkPad T43 still works. Your WhatsApp is wiretapped. Who’s winning?

If it needs a privacy policy, it has none.