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Nothing good about that. Chat control only needs one end of each conversation. Welcome to the panopticon.

If app vendors compromise e2ee. But we’d know pretty quickly if a vendor does it.

How so? Don't you think they will compromise the OS itself to interpret what goes through screen and speaker?

If an app vendor e.g. Signal shipped client side scanning in the app store they would have to compromise all users and I suspect we’d find out relatively quickly. The reputation loss would be permanent. My main concern with the current chat control bill is on the age verification. With open source OSes that don’t enforce Google’s policy users could still side load APKs of forks w/o age verification.

You have to factor in that the reputation loss is probably coming anyway from people like me getting others to do more critical thinking about the very concept of a smartphone app claiming to offer "end to end encryption"

Re compromise of the OS/firmware… device vendor like Apple or Samsung would lose business pretty quickly if that became public. Then even more people would gravitate to open source alternatives and competition would increase vs the current duopoly. Life finds a way.