WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.480 So the European Union just announced that they're planning to develop 00:03.480 --> 00:08.660 decryption capabilities for private data by 2030. 00:09.300 --> 00:13.700 They published their roadmap on June 24th. 00:13.980 --> 00:16.920 And if you're a regular viewer of this channel, 00:17.180 --> 00:20.260 you already know where this is actually headed, 00:21.060 --> 00:26.680 straight to digital totalitarianism. They call it the protect EU strategy. 00:26.680 --> 00:32.960 And even the stupid name that they give it is propaganda, just how it sounds. 00:33.140 --> 00:38.780 It's that kind of classic government double-speak where protection actually means surveillance, 00:39.080 --> 00:45.120 and security actually means control, and where lawful access actually means 00:45.120 --> 00:48.540 breaking into your private messages and reading your stuff. 00:48.740 --> 00:53.720 Every single word is designed to hide what they're actually building, 00:53.720 --> 00:59.920 which is a hellish surveillance state that would make the stuzzy jealous. 01:00.420 --> 01:07.500 The EU claims that they need lawful and effective access to encrypted data 01:07.500 --> 01:11.280 to fight things like terrorism and organized crime. 01:11.640 --> 01:16.060 But they won't tell you exactly how they actually plan to do it. 01:16.380 --> 01:21.700 And their roadmap promises to present a decryption technology roadmap in 01:22.420 --> 01:30.100 2026 and that will assess technological solutions for lawful access, as they like to call it. 01:30.320 --> 01:35.240 This bureaucratic speak, again, we can translate to we're going to force 01:35.240 --> 01:38.320 backdoors into every encryption system that there is. 01:38.420 --> 01:44.200 And this is the absolute nightmare that exists for those that are in the EU. 01:44.400 --> 01:48.300 And this is based on my research, but they're not actually claiming 01:48.300 --> 01:53.540 they can break encryption because that remains still impossible, more or less. 01:53.920 --> 02:01.640 Breaking AES-256, for example, would require more computational power than exists on Earth 02:01.640 --> 02:04.340 for longer than the universe has existed. 02:04.600 --> 02:11.400 It has a key space with 2 to the power of 256 for the number of possible combinations 02:11.400 --> 02:12.560 that actually exist. 02:12.740 --> 02:17.060 More combinations than atoms in the observable universe. 02:17.680 --> 02:22.480 Instead, they're planning something much worse and much easier, 02:22.920 --> 02:27.740 which is client-side scanning that reads your messages before they actually get encrypted 02:27.740 --> 02:33.680 and backdoors that actually give them master keys to your data and legal threads 02:33.680 --> 02:38.960 to try to force companies to comply, which we all know they absolutely will. 02:39.180 --> 02:43.000 Commissioner Magnus Brunner said we need to, quote, 02:43.000 --> 02:48.340 change mindsets and ways of thinking about security, close quote. 02:48.500 --> 02:53.420 I'd expect that means dumping all personal emails into the public space, 02:53.640 --> 02:58.060 getting rid of curtains, and disclosing all private data. 02:58.480 --> 03:04.520 They won't actually do any of that, but we'll expect everyone else to be okay 03:04.860 --> 03:08.300 to do that electronically with this. 03:08.980 --> 03:13.240 When politicians talk about changing mindsets, 03:13.280 --> 03:16.340 they mean breaking your resistance to surveillance. 03:16.780 --> 03:22.420 They want you to believe that giving up things like privacy makes you safer, 03:23.000 --> 03:27.460 like sheep believing that the wolf protects them from other predators. 03:28.060 --> 03:33.360 Their high-level group report from March of 2025 03:33.360 --> 03:38.220 contains 42 recommendations for just a privacy, totally. 03:38.840 --> 03:43.760 At least they're being specific about how they'll actually violate your rights. 03:43.880 --> 03:45.360 I have to give them that. 03:45.520 --> 03:48.720 I also have to say that at least they're a little bit more upfront 03:48.720 --> 03:53.700 about it than our own NSA actually is and has been for years. 03:54.260 --> 04:00.180 Looking at their exact timeline shows how they're building this digital prison out, 04:00.180 --> 04:03.060 which is really the best name for it at the end of the day. 04:03.360 --> 04:08.080 In 2026, they present their decryption technology roadmap, 04:08.640 --> 04:14.880 which again is not actual decryption, but expect demands for backdoors and kiestro. 04:15.960 --> 04:20.220 2027 is the cross-border surveillance sharing between EU, 04:20.940 --> 04:22.500 which is supposed to go live then. 04:22.820 --> 04:27.360 2028 is when AI tools get deployed that actually automatically process 04:27.360 --> 04:29.300 and analyze the seized data. 04:29.900 --> 04:35.320 And they're also dumping money into quantum cryptography research at Europol, 04:35.440 --> 04:38.320 preparing for future surveillance capabilities. 04:38.940 --> 04:42.060 And I'm sure that will absolutely go great, 04:42.140 --> 04:47.920 and nothing bad will ever happen from any of those things being done. 04:48.240 --> 04:54.020 The metadata retention framework, which is scheduled for 2025 and 2026, 04:54.080 --> 04:56.600 creates another surveillance layer that'll exist. 04:56.600 --> 05:00.180 And they'll know who you are, who you're communicating with, 05:00.380 --> 05:04.920 when you're communicating with them, where you are, and for how long you are there. 05:05.160 --> 05:12.100 Combined with their decryption plans, they'll have a complete map of your digital life. 05:12.300 --> 05:17.640 And the Stasi employed one-third of citizens to spy on the other two-thirds. 05:17.880 --> 05:19.540 This is much more efficient than that. 05:19.660 --> 05:22.700 The Soviet Union read every letter, monitored every call, 05:22.700 --> 05:25.500 and disappeared anyone who spoke against the state. 05:25.740 --> 05:30.500 J. Edgar Hoover's FBI kept secret files on millions of Americans, 05:30.760 --> 05:32.860 including Martin Luther King, John Lennon, 05:33.400 --> 05:37.300 and anyone who threatened their power structure at the time. 05:37.920 --> 05:44.920 But none of that is even remotely close to how bad this system will be in comparison. 05:45.860 --> 05:46.760 And it'll never end. 05:47.460 --> 05:49.960 COINTELPRO actively destroyed lives. 05:50.220 --> 05:53.860 They forged letters, they broke up marriages, they planted evidence 05:53.860 --> 06:00.060 to try to frame activists and assassinated Fred Hampton while he slept. 06:00.280 --> 06:04.460 The NSA's prison program went by the same kind of hellish playbook 06:04.460 --> 06:06.260 just with better technology. 06:06.600 --> 06:10.120 Edward Snowden, for example, gave us a kind of glimpse into this 06:10.120 --> 06:12.980 and showed us that they collect everything, your emails, 06:12.980 --> 06:14.820 your text, your photos, your location. 06:15.240 --> 06:19.000 Every authoritarian system starts with protecting citizens 06:19.000 --> 06:22.280 and ends with just absolutely crushing them. 06:22.920 --> 06:26.720 Their justifications are really just pathetic propaganda. 06:27.100 --> 06:34.040 The EU's own data shows that in 2023, 90% of over-the-top communications 06:34.040 --> 06:39.120 were encrypted and 97% of mobile messages used encryption apps. 06:39.120 --> 06:43.600 They cite cases like the 2017 Let's Minster bridge attack 06:43.600 --> 06:46.480 where encryption, quote, hindered investigators. 06:47.060 --> 06:49.660 Well, you know, can't have those investigators hindered. 06:49.840 --> 06:51.980 You know what else hinders investigations? 06:52.420 --> 06:57.760 Well, pesky things like due process or privacy rights 06:57.760 --> 07:00.180 or the presumption of innocence. 07:00.800 --> 07:06.440 So because it inconveniences public servants known as police, 07:06.440 --> 07:08.500 should we eliminate those two? 07:08.500 --> 07:10.000 Like it just makes no sense. 07:10.520 --> 07:15.320 The Europol's decryption platform already supported 37 investigations 07:15.320 --> 07:20.700 in 2023 that we know of, including operations that we've talked about 07:20.700 --> 07:24.660 from this channel like Sky ECC and AnchorChat. 07:24.880 --> 07:29.320 They have capabilities, but it's never enough for these people, right? 07:29.500 --> 07:32.100 Like they're worse than crackheads, really. 07:32.520 --> 07:36.140 They're transforming Europol into Europe's FBI, 07:36.140 --> 07:39.740 but worse than giving it powers for cross borders 07:39.740 --> 07:43.160 and complex cases with zero accountability. 07:43.600 --> 07:49.640 Imagine America's federal agents but with jurisdiction from Portugal to Poland. 07:49.820 --> 07:53.940 And Robin Wilton from the Internet Society warned 07:54.300 --> 07:59.040 the plan jeopardizes the security and privacy of millions. 07:59.460 --> 08:04.660 The Global Encryption Coalition, which 89 organizations strong, 08:04.660 --> 08:10.100 sent a letter on May 26th explaining that their plans would create 08:10.100 --> 08:15.020 vulnerabilities that were exploitable by criminals and hostile state actors. 08:15.220 --> 08:20.420 They pointed out that the past EU efforts focused on client side skinning, 08:20.500 --> 08:23.520 which violated the promise of end-to-end encryption. 08:24.060 --> 08:29.140 Security experts unanimously agree that you can't create lawful access 08:29.140 --> 08:33.000 without creating vulnerabilities for every single person 08:33.000 --> 08:34.920 who uses these devices. 08:35.300 --> 08:40.220 Every backdoor built for law enforcement becomes an entry point for criminals, 08:40.460 --> 08:44.540 for foreign intelligence services and for just hackers in general. 08:44.780 --> 08:48.280 It's like, you know, kind of putting a master key under your door mat 08:48.280 --> 08:52.380 and hoping that only the police find it and use it. 08:52.520 --> 08:55.140 The political abuse has already started. 08:55.280 --> 08:58.120 If we look at Hungary under Victor Warbian, 08:58.380 --> 09:01.220 they use surveillance tools to track dissidents, 09:01.220 --> 09:05.660 track oppositional politicians, maintain power through fear. 09:05.900 --> 09:09.220 Now, multiply that across 27 EU countries, 09:09.540 --> 09:12.980 far-right parties getting access to immigration communications, 09:13.760 --> 09:16.240 far-left governments targeting business owners. 09:16.960 --> 09:21.800 The infrastructure for tyranny gets built by moderates 09:22.740 --> 09:26.640 claiming to fight terrorism, then inherited by extremists 09:26.640 --> 09:28.360 who use it exactly as designed. 09:28.360 --> 09:32.540 Social media shows people understand what's actually happening, 09:32.540 --> 09:37.820 even if the mainstream media, which as per the norm, refuses to cover it. 09:38.200 --> 09:42.520 A Reddit thread, for example, from July actually exploded with 2,500 votes 09:42.520 --> 09:47.840 and 224 comments comparing this to the great Chinese firewall 09:47.840 --> 09:52.760 and East German Stasi, which is actually where I stole the comparison from earlier. 09:52.760 --> 10:01.040 User Anaco7 asked in-check why anyone still supports the EU given its brutal restrictions 10:01.040 --> 10:05.840 on freedom, privacy, and wealth, and decrypt media exposed 10:05.840 --> 10:09.420 how they're also banning anonymous crypto wallets 10:09.420 --> 10:13.260 and privacy coins by July of 2027. 10:13.560 --> 10:17.740 Complete financial surveillance paired with communication surveillance. 10:18.100 --> 10:21.260 Criminals will just switch to open source encryption tools. 10:21.260 --> 10:22.340 That's how that'll go. 10:22.540 --> 10:27.260 They'll download signal or forks from GitHub, compile them on their own, 10:27.280 --> 10:30.680 and use protocols that route around that surveillance. 10:31.220 --> 10:34.800 Meanwhile, your grandmother's medical bills and conversations 10:34.800 --> 10:39.240 actually become accessible to all these bureaucrats and all these threat actors. 10:39.640 --> 10:43.220 Your daughter's private messages get stored in government databases. 10:43.800 --> 10:49.440 Your business negotiations sit waiting for the next data breach to happen. 10:49.440 --> 10:50.060 And it will. 10:50.600 --> 10:56.060 Law-abiding citizens lose all privacy while actual criminals laugh 10:56.630 --> 10:58.520 at the surveillance theater. 10:59.000 --> 11:03.120 The economic devastation will probably be immediate with this too. 11:03.460 --> 11:06.760 Weakening encryption absolutely destroys online banking security. 11:07.140 --> 11:09.660 E-commerce becomes vulnerable to fraud. 11:10.040 --> 11:16.340 Every back door that they try to mandate becomes a target for a Chinese intelligence 11:16.340 --> 11:20.700 officer or Russian hackers and organized crime in general. 11:21.060 --> 11:25.540 They're creating the exact four abilities that they claim to be trying to prevent 11:25.540 --> 11:31.420 and funding the organizations that they're virtue signaling that they hate. 11:31.920 --> 11:36.680 And they can't stand that you might actually have a private conversation. 11:37.320 --> 11:40.920 Now, I might be wrong about that like it's, you know, 11:41.140 --> 11:45.140 like the tax-free banking district in London or whatever. 11:45.140 --> 11:51.720 Typically the masters like the rulers only apply the rules to the serfs. 11:51.920 --> 11:58.400 The propaganda campaign frames anyone opposing this as a supporter of terrorism and child abuse. 11:58.760 --> 12:01.360 Which is classic authoritarianism. 12:01.660 --> 12:03.480 It's just pure manipulation. 12:04.000 --> 12:07.040 They ignore that journalists need encryption to protect sources 12:07.040 --> 12:10.620 from retaliation that human rights is just a privacy. 12:11.140 --> 12:11.640 How about that? 12:11.640 --> 12:18.300 You know, like activists needed also to organize against oppressive regimes. 12:18.520 --> 12:21.560 Abuse victims needed to escape their abusers. 12:21.940 --> 12:25.180 Businesses needed to protect trade secrets. 12:25.420 --> 12:27.420 Worth billions in some cases. 12:27.960 --> 12:31.780 But according to Brussels, none of that matters. 12:32.080 --> 12:36.700 Compared to the make-believe boogeyman and their surveillance demands. 12:37.420 --> 12:41.020 They'll target companies with massive fines 12:41.020 --> 12:44.840 in criminal prosecutions even though there's no victims. 12:45.400 --> 12:46.800 Complier be destroyed. 12:47.440 --> 12:51.240 And we saw this with the lava bit in the U.S. 12:51.540 --> 12:54.500 when they shut down rather than compromise on user privacy. 12:54.720 --> 12:59.260 Which was one of the most based things I'd seen in a while when that happened. 12:59.760 --> 13:04.460 Apple removed end-to-end encryption from British iCloud users 13:05.100 --> 13:06.780 after government threats. 13:07.380 --> 13:10.120 The EU will be even more aggressive. 13:10.720 --> 13:14.400 And this isn't just like Europe's problem, right? 13:14.880 --> 13:21.840 The U.S. pushes the Earn It Act attacking encryption through section 230, 13:22.300 --> 13:25.700 Five Eyes Nations, coordinate their assault on privacy. 13:26.320 --> 13:28.580 Like, you know, I said in the UK, 13:29.160 --> 13:32.520 they already forced Apple to remove encryption features. 13:32.520 --> 13:38.400 Your encrypted messages basically threaten their global surveillance network. 13:38.660 --> 13:41.880 So encryption must be made useless everywhere. 13:42.420 --> 13:49.440 The 2026 technology roadmap will reveal their specific kind of demands and tactics. 13:49.820 --> 13:57.400 Expect mandatory key escrow where government can hold copies of all encryption keys, 13:57.400 --> 14:03.620 state-controlled certificate authorities, requirements for client-side scanning in all 14:03.620 --> 14:10.180 messaging apps, hardware-level surveillance capabilities, the technical architecture of 14:10.180 --> 14:17.080 tyranny, basically all wrapped in talk of lawful access and protecting the children 14:17.080 --> 14:20.000 and all that kind of nonsense that we always get. 14:20.480 --> 14:24.400 Citizens are already preparing, though, from some of the things I've seen. 14:24.400 --> 14:29.600 Forums discuss doing things like using tails and Hoonix operating systems. 14:29.860 --> 14:35.420 People stack privacy tools, signal inside VPNs, inside Tor. 14:36.040 --> 14:40.740 They're moving to Monero because it's actually private, 14:40.880 --> 14:42.300 unlike the surveilled Bitcoin. 14:42.960 --> 14:50.780 Every authoritarian overreach creates equal and opposite reactions in privacy innovation. 14:51.340 --> 14:56.540 None of this seems as though it's gonna really end well, though. 14:56.980 --> 15:03.160 Like they're enhancing Europol's digital forensics capabilities starting in 2026. 15:03.680 --> 15:11.000 The metadata retention framework that we talked about earlier begins assessment in 2025. 15:11.680 --> 15:15.240 Cross-border surveillance cooperation starts in 2027. 15:16.000 --> 15:20.660 Every piece builds towards total surveillance by 2030. 15:21.200 --> 15:23.500 But implementation begins now. 15:23.760 --> 15:24.860 Make no mistake about that. 15:25.300 --> 15:28.960 Budget allocations expose their actual priorities. 15:29.480 --> 15:34.900 Billions for surveillance technology while hospitals beg for basic equipment. 15:35.300 --> 15:39.180 Unlimited funds for digital forensics and AI tools. 15:39.420 --> 15:42.580 But suddenly they're broke when schools need funding. 15:42.880 --> 15:50.440 The US spends 80 billion annually on intelligence agencies while claiming healthcare is just 15:50.440 --> 15:51.840 completely unaffordable. 15:52.560 --> 16:00.120 Their AI deployment by 2028 industrializes these privacy violations. 16:01.160 --> 16:06.560 Machine learning algorithms will process massive volumes of seized data. 16:06.560 --> 16:12.920 Flag suspicious patterns, identified targets autonomously and automatically. 16:14.060 --> 16:23.080 And it sucks to be you if you get flagged by accident like pre-crime detection 16:23.790 --> 16:26.940 without the psychics, basically. 16:27.560 --> 16:34.760 They're building the infrastructure for algorithmic authoritarianism. 16:34.760 --> 16:41.240 The certification schemes for digital forensic experts by 2026 create state-licensed 16:41.800 --> 16:44.080 privacy violators. 16:44.680 --> 16:48.700 Only government-approved technicians can legally work with encryption data. 16:48.960 --> 16:53.020 They're monopolizing the knowledge needed to try and protect yourself. 16:53.380 --> 16:55.440 Creating a surveillance priesthood. 16:56.040 --> 16:59.000 Open-source encryption faces an existing threat. 16:59.420 --> 17:03.700 OpenSSL, for example, has over 1,000 contributors worldwide. 17:03.700 --> 17:09.340 You can arrest a mathematical algorithm or find a decentralized protocol. 17:09.740 --> 17:15.720 So they'll use legal pressure on companies, threatening executives with prison if they 17:15.720 --> 17:18.300 don't comply with backdoor demands. 17:18.480 --> 17:23.200 Even EU citizens need to understand that they're coming. 17:23.780 --> 17:27.500 Like your private medical discussions, your business communications, 17:28.100 --> 17:33.780 your personal relationships all become potentially accessible to law enforcement. 17:34.080 --> 17:37.120 Your entire digital life is subject to surveillance. 17:37.440 --> 17:41.960 And once this infrastructure actually exists, it'll never go away. 17:42.320 --> 17:45.540 They don't relent on privacy violations. 17:45.860 --> 17:50.400 Once they establish something like this, they don't willingly let go of that power. 17:51.020 --> 17:56.560 Future governments inherit these capabilities regardless of who builds them and they build 17:56.560 --> 17:57.360 on top of that. 17:57.520 --> 17:58.320 They compound it. 17:58.560 --> 17:59.320 They make it worse. 17:59.620 --> 18:03.800 The EU reveals its authoritarian core through these actions. 18:04.320 --> 18:12.700 So behind all this democracy rhetoric and human rights treaties lies, basically, 18:14.580 --> 18:21.280 you have raw power-seeking total control with some of the worst people that you 18:21.280 --> 18:23.100 really want to give that control to. 18:23.710 --> 18:30.600 It's also not just the EU, but it seems like nowadays it's every single country 18:30.600 --> 18:36.980 that's having these issues all at the same time separated. 18:37.620 --> 18:39.300 It's absolutely insane. 18:40.080 --> 18:42.840 And in case, stay safe as always. 18:43.140 --> 18:44.040 I'll see you in the next video.