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The EARN IT anti-encryption act is back and [has already passed the Judiciary Committe](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act), the only chance to stop it now is overwhelming public pushback... > End-to-end encryption is simply not compatible with the type of surveillance that states will demand, and that the bill’s sponsors have [explicitly suggested](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220210/09311048445/senator-blumenthal-after-years-denial-admits-hes-targeting-encryption-with-earn-it.shtml). Because mandatory hardware backdoors are the only real way to stop end-to-end encryption, we'll most likely be seeing just that if the bill passes... Digital privacy will become a thing of the past, and that'll be it for KDE's mission to ["empower users with freedom and privacy"](https://kde.org/products/) and build a ["privacy-respecting, open source and secure phone ecosystem"](https://plasma-mobile.org/). **The time to ring the apocalypse bells is NOW!** Blog posts, SOPA-style website banners, especially Krita's (just to reach outside the tech nerd bubble, **that's critically important**), possibly even nag bars in actual software, anything goes, just PLEASE try to make sure to only show them only for US users, be careful to not trigger further privacy restrictions in undemocratic countries (I live in one)...

The EARN IT anti-encryption act is back and [has already passed the Judiciary Committe](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act), the only chance to stop it now is overwhelming public pushback... If it passes, that'll be it for KDE's mission to ["empower users with freedom and privacy"](https://kde.org/products/) and build a ["privacy-respecting, open source and secure phone ecosystem"](https://plasma-mobile.org/). > End-to-end encryption is simply not compatible with the type of surveillance that states will demand, and that the bill’s sponsors have [explicitly suggested](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220210/09311048445/senator-blumenthal-after-years-denial-admits-hes-targeting-encryption-with-earn-it.shtml). Because mandatory hardware backdoors are the only real way to stop end-to-end encryption, we'll most likely be seeing just that, and digital privacy will become a thing of the past... **The time to ring the apocalypse bells is NOW!** Blog posts, SOPA-style website banners, especially Krita's (just to reach outside the tech nerd bubble, **that's critically important**), possibly even nag bars in actual software, anything goes, just PLEASE try to make sure to only show them only for US users, be careful to not trigger further privacy restrictions in undemocratic countries (I live in one)...

The EARN IT anti-encryption act is back and [has already passed the Judiciary Committe](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act), the only chance to stop it now is overwhelming public pushback... > End-to-end encryption is simply not compatible with the type of surveillance that states will demandIf it passes, and that the bill’s sponsors have [explicitly suggested](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220210/09311048445/senator-blumenthal-after-years-denial-admits-hes-targeting-encryption-with-earn-it.shtmlthat'll be it for KDE's mission to ["empower users with freedom and privacy"](https://kde.org/products/) and build a ["privacy-respecting, open source and secure phone ecosystem"](https://plasma-mobile.org/). Because mandatory hardware backdoors are the only real way to stop end-to-end encryption> End-to-end encryption is simply not compatible with the type of surveillance that states will demand, we'll most likely be seeing just that if the bill passes..and that the bill’s sponsors have [explicitly suggested](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220210/09311048445/senator-blumenthal-after-years-denial-admits-hes-targeting-encryption-with-earn-it.shtml). Digital privacy will become a thing of the pastBecause mandatory hardware backdoors are the only real way to stop end-to-end encryption, and that'll be it for KDE's mission to ["empower users with freedom and privacy"](https://kde.org/products/) and build a ["privacy-respectingwe'll most likely be seeing just that, open source and secure phone ecosystem"](https://plasma-mobile.org/)and digital privacy will become a thing of the past... **The time to ring the apocalypse bells is NOW!** Blog posts, SOPA-style website banners, especially Krita's (just to reach outside the tech nerd bubble, **that's critically important**), possibly even nag bars in actual software, anything goes, just PLEASE try to make sure to only show them only for US users, be careful to not trigger further privacy restrictions in undemocratic countries (I live in one)...