In http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Justiz-soll-verschluesselte-Terror-Kommunikation-auswerten-koennen-3302594.html (German), the German and French government are attacking the right to encrypt communication of their serfs. Also because of their violent anti-encryption opinion I was glad to see the Brittish influence in the EU shrink but now we have this.
I don't know what they will come up with, but as GnuPG community we should be prepared because development is in Germany (and we thought to be safe from the US there...). Also, Silence. the encrypted sms fork from Signal is developed partly in France. Both GnuPG and Silence have the advantage that they are open source and don't require central servers. Signal has the advantage it's open source and does not have a commercial presence here that can't be attacked. For WhatsApp things look not as well. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
