Child Exploitation and the Crypto Wars
Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn’t the solution.
Mark • October 23, 2023 11:04 AM
The biggest problem today is grooming on social media. It’s too easy for pedos to create fake accounts and target thousands of children online. Some of the examples I’ve seen in the news are truly disgusting and shameless. They will blackmail children into doing things on camera.
Combating grooming on social media will solve 90% of the CSAM problem. Right now, it’s too easy for a single adult to contact thousands of children on social media. Crippling E2EE does nothing to combat grooming.
There are ulterior motives here. The fediverse was flooded with CSAM shortly before this legislation was passed, the timing of which is no coincidence. It was a coordinated effort by those pushing this legislation, a deliberate action, not to combat CSAM, but to abolish E2EE. Those pushing this legislation are every bit as shameless as those who groom children on social media.