• @stoy@lemmy.zip
        41•8 months ago

        Sigh…

        I did not expect them to be so dumb as to break their own specific encryption systems…

        Well, I guess I expected the bare minimum from the government, and they let me down…

        …again.

        • @30p87@feddit.de
          18•8 months ago

          Also, the implementation is fucking horrible. The rule is literally “Press, Think, Speak”, because requesting to speak and opening a connection takes a solid 5-10 seconds. Very good if you want to communicate while in a burning house. Literally everybody hates it.

          • @stoy@lemmy.zip
            10•8 months ago

            Oh, what the fuck?

            One of the key benefits of radio communications, is that it acts as a megaphone, but only to people monitoring the channel.

            Press the PTT key, and talk (following established radio protocol), 5-10 sec delay is crap!

          • @Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
            7•8 months ago

            That sounds horrible. What about this stupid standard takes this fucking long? Is it not improvable by current tech?

            • @w3stley@feddit.de
              4•8 months ago

              They are working on it. The TETRA standard is from the 90s, and by now the last fire departments are switching to it (TETRA)

              Maybe 20 years between the federal decision and the last county implementing the new standard.

          • @thewowwedeserve@feddit.de
            3•8 months ago

            Are you using a different Tetra than anyone else? Because every radio i have used takes at max 1-1,5s to establish communications?

  • spezEnglish
    49•8 months ago

    Just fuckin’ start rectally examining every damm citizen!

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]English
    32•8 months ago

    Europeans: “Those perfidious Russians and the nefarious Chinese are the two single biggest threats to our domestic security. Why… they’ll just hack into any old thing and fill it full of evil communist propaganda. They’ll shut down our critical infrastructure, hijack our data services, and spam us so full of phishing attempts that you won’t know what’s safe to click on! And all just to watch us fail, then laugh at us. The fiends!!!”

    Also Europeans: “Google’s CEO said we need to dismantle the last ten years of digital safety standards so we can undermine the YouTube adblocker. Make this our top priority.”

    • @jackpot@lemmy.ml
      6•8 months ago

      i hope this is exclusively anti-google and not some in-between the lines way of saying we’re also being too harsh to two genocidal dictatorships

    • Arthur BesseOP
      28•8 months ago

      The legislation requires web browsers to trust EU countries’ CAs (which browsers already tend to do, but are presently free to remove when they’re observed being misused) and prohibits doing non-ETSI-approved validity checks (eg, certificate transparency, which is a way CA-misusing MITM attackers can be caught).

      Wouldn’t you say the point of that particular clause is to reduce browser security (so that cops and intelligence agencies are free to exploit it without interference from CT)?

        • @dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5•8 months ago

          If they wanted to make browsers less secure, they would do so in much more obvious ways.

          The new proposal demands browsers automatically trust government created root certificates. That means any EU government can do a man-in-the-middle attack on any end user running that web browser, even users in other countries. There is no reason to do that other than to spy on people or to manipulate the content that they’re viewing.

          If any government, or company for that matter, wants to make their own root cert and deploy it to all their users/machines they can already do that easily. A lot of companies that work with sensitive data already do this, and some companies (ex: symantec) provide solutions to do it very easily, so the IT team can see everything the users are doing.