Comment by blueflow
4 days ago
Le Parisien is not the french state. I doubt you had any interaction with the french authorities at all.
You are unable to any legal recourse because none of your rights have been violated (yet).
4 days ago
Le Parisien is not the french state. I doubt you had any interaction with the french authorities at all.
You are unable to any legal recourse because none of your rights have been violated (yet).
To be fair, the quote in the second article is from Johanna Brousse who is behind the Durov arrest.
> "Mais ça ne nous empêchera pas de poursuivre les éditeurs, si des liens sont découverts avec une organisation criminelle et qu’ils ne coopèrent pas avec la justice."
> “But that won't stop us from prosecuting publishers if links to a criminal organization are discovered and they fail to cooperate with the justice system.” (DeepL)
I understand this can be seen as more threatening even if the whole quote softens this a bit.
To be even fairer, where in the french legal codes does it say "introduce backdoors!"
I'm all for assuming the worst, but not to the point of putting words in someone's mouth.
Only a total idiot would wait to actually be arrested, fined, or even harassed, before doing something about it.
Maybe he is going to get arrested, maybe we are observing an persecution complex.
Given what we know about how most Western nations feel about secure communications, what seems more likely?
The reality is that the west got very comfortable with a world where any and all communication can be trivially wire tapped.
Telephony, messaging, and even the internet - these were not only abused, but abused on such a scale that virtually no data could ever be safe from the eye of the state. Even printed media would leak it's location, etched in microscopic ink.
We, unceramoniously and rapidly, yanked this power out from underneath them. For the first time in a very long time, it is possible to have communication which cannot be surveilled.
Knowing what we know about how governments work, are we shocked that there is push back to this? Frankly, the only reason we aren't seeing more abuse is because the big dogs still permit absolute serveillance. I'm sure at the behest of the state.
Projects like grapheneos and signal represent an existential threat to the current model of citizen serveillance and crime solving. Starving dogs will bite.