Yesterday I more broadly introduced the thought experiment 'Schrödinger's Chat'. I wanted to make the graphic I produced available in English as well. Feel free to use it wherever you want.
This thought experiment addresses what proponents of #ChatControl stubbornly claim, that they aren't breaking encryption when they eavesdrop on, and monitor, messages sent over apps that offer end-to-end encryption.
Alas, according to the politicians the communication is hence both encrypted and unencrypted at the same time. i.e. Schrödinger's Chat.
Alarmingly, many politicians still need more education on the naïveté of this reality.
If an app offers end-to-end encryption, and the government listens in on the message you write inside the app before it has a chance to encrypt the message at the send moment, then a backdoor has been opened and whatever encryption is promised after this is deemed null and void. There is no other way to see this.
But many EU politicians also do in fact want this Orwellian nightmare to become true, charging ahead in yet another arms race with dictatorships, hoping to become the best at dismantling human rights and asserting never-before witnessed control over European citizens. As has been elsewhere noted, the East German secret police, Stasi, could only dream of this much power over its citizens' voices.
The #ChatControl proposal is still alive and kicking, after three years of debates and being voted down it keeps being reincarnated. The cat metaphor just keeps on giving.
Get to know what what is going and make more people aware. Let your politicians know what you expect from them. The many lives of Schrödinger's Chat should be coming to an end.
Keep an eye out for my longer article on #ChatControl.