Home routing is a useful technical solution for travelers interested in seamless internet access through their domestic provider. Users can also enjoy enhanced security if the provider...

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/16595505

  • Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder for Europol
  • PET-enabled home routing allows for secure communication, hindering law enforcement’s ability to intercept and monitor communications
  • Europol suggests solutions such as disabling PET technologies and implementing cross-border interception standards to address the issue.
    • Aganim@lemmy.world
      161·
      6 months ago

      If it’s written in the law, it’s lawful. You can of course (and should!) debate about the morality of the diverse forms of lawful interception, but a blanket statement like ‘“lawful interception” is a fallacy’, is a fallacy in of itself.

      • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        The fallacy is imagining that “lawfulness” is an attribute that can be reliably detected on an implementation level.

      • kureta@lemmy.ml
        2·
        6 months ago

        Laws do not, did not ever, guarantee interception. It always allowed the police to try to intercept. The police hid bugs, tapped wires. Never in history the police said "for lawful interception to happen, all phones must come with preinstalled wiretap. The implication that “communications systems are too secure, there has to be a backdoor for lawful interception” is a fallacy.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      111·
      6 months ago

      It’s basically when you drag an Ethernet cable behind you wherever you go, with the other end still plugged into your home switch.

    • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      My understanding after reading the article is: while roaming your phone sets up a VPN type thing with your phone provider, and routes calls and data through this tunnel, so now Europol has to deal with another country if they want to track you.

      • Alborlin@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I am in dire need of such solution just because I moved with Europe but don’t want to let go my old number, fortunately I visit one 6 months but what if I pass the deadline?
        Besides Google won’t let me use my Balance unless I have that specific counties card in phone and it’s active… If you know how to do it let me know.

    • onlooker@lemmy.ml
      62·
      6 months ago

      It’s a process of telling houses where to go. Why do you think homes never get lost?

    • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      Home routing is when you connect a cable to your PC and the wall. Your home then uses that connection to join the Dark Web, and you allow hackers to stay at your home temporarily to escape the government. Those hackers jump from house to house, evading the authorities.

      (/s)

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      33·
      6 months ago

      😂. "Oh you wanna go to the internet? Sure, let me NAT and route you to my gateway. "

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    171·
    6 months ago

    Endemic end-to-end encryption just means that everyone is now protected from interception.

    I’ve been using PGP and friends since the 90s. Most people who LE should be targeting for investigation have likewise been using strong encryption since the 90s.

    Most cases get a break due to the failure of opsec or due to chance or standard gruelling detective work and the fact that people are social animals.

    So what exactly is Europol arguing here?

  • Neon 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🇮🇱 @lemmy.world
    74·
    6 months ago

    I get that that’s bad and that shouldn’t be.

    But there just have been too many cases of unlawful interception (NSA and Criminal). So I personally don’t think we should move back away from encryption