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Em :official_verified:

New Privacy Guides article 🔐✊
by me:

Encryption Is Not a Crime

The war against encryption isn't new, but the quantity of data about us that needs protection is.

Despite the senseless attacks,
it is vital that we fight back to protect the right to using end-to-end encryption.

Encryption protects us all: privacyguides.org/articles/202

www.privacyguides.org · Encryption Is Not a Crime
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#PrivacyGuides#Encryption#Privacy
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Brian Greenberg

🚨 Florida’s new “Social Media Use by Minors” bill (SB 868/HB 743) has a chilling twist: it demands platforms create backdoors to decrypt private messages.

That means:
🔓 End-to-end encryption may be turned off
📵 Disappearing messages could be banned
🧒 Minors lose digital privacy
💣 All users may face weaker security

EFF warns this is a dangerous precedent that risks everyone’s online safety. Legislating away encryption doesn’t protect kids — it jeopardizes all of us.

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #Encryption #TechPolicy
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/flor

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption BackdoorAt least Florida’s SB 868/HB 763, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.” Usually these sorts of sweeping mandates...
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"At least Florida’s SB 868/HB 743, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.” Usually these sorts of sweeping mandates are hidden behind smoke and mirrors, but this time it’s out in the open: Florida wants a backdoor into any end-to-end encrypted social media platforms that allow accounts for minors. This would likely lead to companies not offering end-to-end encryption to minors at all, making them less safe online.

Encryption is the best tool we have to protect our communication online. It’s just as important for young people as it is for everyone else, and the idea that Florida can “protect” minors by making them less safe is dangerous and dumb.

The bill is not only privacy-invasive, it’s also asking for the impossible."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/flor

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption BackdoorAt least Florida’s SB 868/HB 763, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.” Usually these sorts of sweeping mandates...
#USA#Florida#SocialMedia
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Privacy Guides

Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and also an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

privacyguides.org/articles/202

www.privacyguides.org · Encryption Is Not a Crime
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Christian Pietsch

Lately I've been doing more #SelfHosting again due to the current situation. Of course, I'm paying particular attention to power consumption and noise. After good experiences with the #ARM64 architecture, even with power-hungry applications such as Mastodon, I'm now using the smartphone technology for my homeservers, too.

There are #SBCs with more open hardware, but the #RaspberryPi is widely available, well documented, powerful and inexpensive. And it is available with up to 16 GB of RAM.

Anyone operating a server on the Internet must install #security updates quickly. However, many people forget to restart running software so that the new version runs instead of the old one. The #needrestart tool helps with this on Debian-based Linux systems, which unfortunately is usually not pre-installed.

On my Raspberry Pi 4, needrestart always runs correctly (automatically after apt upgrade). On my Raspberry Pi 5, however, I first had to create a configuration file as described by the main developer here:
github.com/liske/needrestart/b
Previously, the tool always claimed that a reboot was necessary because it thought an outdated Linux kernel was running.

Next, I want to activate #LUKS hard drive encryption on both raspis. Unfortunately, this is not as easy under #Raspbian or #RaspberryPiOS as on other Debian systems. If you have managed this: Please let me know how you did it!

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#rpi#rpi5#raspi
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