[cntrl]

> This will require them to monitor and scan the communications of citizens en masse – even if they are still securely encrypted end-to-end so far.

how does this work though? Or do they want to force communication services to have backdoor into their encryption technology?

[vaylian]

Afaik the legislation will force communication service providers (WhatsApp, MSN Messenger, ...) to scan any chat message for illegal material before it is encrypted and sent. The scanning happens against a known database of data fingerprints.

[GekkePrutser]

So what happens with self-hosted or decentralized services? Like matrix.

[vaylian]

Depends entirely on how the law itself will be phrased. Maybe there is an exception to services below a certain size. But I don't expect the politicians behind this initiative to have matrix on the radar or even understand decentralized chat protocols.

[rightbyte]

You could program the clients to look for blacklisted URLs or picture hashes or whatever and still have end to end encryption I guess. Would defeat the point though and the eavesdropping could just aswell be on the server with no end to end encryption.