Upcoming laws and the state of privacy in Europe?

[Loweel]

In my humble opinion, a law written in such a way would be impossible 
to enforce, especially when talking about companies. I think they are 
made just for the show.




On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Martin Eskdale Moen 
<martinmoen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm not trying to rock any boats or make noise and I'm not 
> interested in discussing politics either, but I just wanted to get a 
> general feel for what the rest of the tinc community felt in regards 
> to how the EU looks like it wants to completely break encryption and 
> make tools like tinc unfeasible.
> Both Germany and France want this to happen and in the UK the 
> snoopers charter has provisions for this (although not tested in 
> court yet).
> I think Netherlands, Norway and Finland are considering similar laws.
> Not sure which country isn't doing this.
> 
> Any ideas on how we can keep tinc safe if for instance tomorrow the 
> majority of countries in Europe decided that encryption is no longer 
> allowed without government keys being used.
> 
> I think simply saying that tinc is open source isn't exactly an 
> answer, it would mean we individually have to read every line of 
> source, understand and continue to read every patch that is made 
> going forwards.