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39c3 2025

Day 1 (508) Jared Naude (41)

If you are doing your own "research" you need to be careful as there can be high voltage that is not grounded. Using isolated equipment is recommended. These machines have spinning parts and as the rest of the family uses them, you should exercise caution.

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Hacking washing machines by Severin von Wnuck-Lipinski & Hajo Noerenberg

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The most venomous tooth of Chat control has been ripped off but the fight is not over. Each person and politician can work together like a mosaic to fight against the fascism that chat control poses.

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Any proposal must explicitly protect end to end encryption. Risk minimization and risk categorization must be clear. Neither scanning or age verification should be enforced. Even voluntary scanning is still mass surveillance.

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321 971 people signed a petition against Chat Control. One of the German politicians also made a speech about the large volume of emails that he received in opposition to the law.

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This started a spiral where WhatsApp, Threema and German's Child protection agency said that they don't support Chat Control due to significant risks that the law poses.

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Signal and many service providers said that if Chat Control was adopted, they would leave the European market since they would not implement Chat control which would fundamentally undermine privacy and encryption.

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In March 2024, a proposal was put forward around this issue but in July 2024, Chat Control was removed from the agenda where Ylva Johansson took the law over.

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There was a talk earlier on about how the CSAM is misunderstood and laws like this are not the right solution.

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Chat control is effectively breaking end to end encryption by implementing client side scanning. It also goes a lot further into network censorship which we have been fighting for the last 20 years. Targeted scanning could also be possible under the law.

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