Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case - eviltoast
This article was written on the basis of information related to the so-called "8 December" case (see the footnotes for a global overview of the case, we focus on the "numerical part" of it in this articleFor a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in thi

In France there is currently a criminal case in which the justice department is accusing people of terrorism for using Signal, WhatsApp, VPN and encrypted mails.

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So let me get this straight: the police arrested them on suspicion of conspiracy to commit (generic, unspecified) “terrorism,” but can’t accuse them of plotting any specific terrorist act, and they excuse this by saying that the details of the alleged plots must all be in the encrypted communications that they can’t read?

    So the French police can just make up crimes that haven’t happened, and then claim that the total lack of evidence is because the defendant has hidden the evidence (which “must” exist) so well? Damn.