https://salix.host/tags/chatcontrol/Recent content in Chatcontrol on salix.hostHugoen-usTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://salix.host/posts/chat-control-2026/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://salix.host/posts/chat-control-2026/<p>Okay, different topic today. If you&rsquo;re in the EU and you care about privacy even a little bit, you&rsquo;ve probably heard of Chat Control at some point. It&rsquo;s the EU proposal to make messaging apps scan private messages for child abuse material. Sounds reasonable when you say it like that, which is exactly the problem, because what it actually means is scanning <em>everyone&rsquo;s</em> messages, all the time, without any suspicion. And you can&rsquo;t do that with end-to-end encrypted messages without breaking the encryption. There is no magic version of this where your chats stay private but also get scanned. Every cryptographer who looked at it said the same thing.</p>