This is a 'temporary' law that will be reconsidered after 4 years (most of the time this means it will just be continued).
The CTIVD will have supervision during and after the tab (good).
Private data can be held much longer without government approval (why?).
There is no permission needed to tap another server when a party, that is under surveillance, is moving there.
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I have mixed feelings about this. We know Russia is trying to disrupt the Netherlands because of previous taps. So on one hand it is good that the government can quickly react to such threads. On the other hand it has huge privacy implications.
Some people in this thread think that TLS will keep us private but that is not how it works when they can listen to all traffic.
For example they can see I posted a request to Hacker News on a specific time. Then it is a matter of finding all posts that were made around that timestamp to see what I wrote and what my username is.
For example they can see I posted a request to Hacker News on a specific time. Then it is a matter of finding all posts that were made around that timestamp to see what I wrote and what my username is.
I think this is a lot of work to do. Just ask some 3 letters agencies for some help on some malware or on some "router firmware bugs" to be exploited etc. They don't care about hacker news readers or posting comments (because this implies you must know the DNS first, etc). They care about botnets DDoS-ing your railway infrastructure, ransomware on hospitals, serious stuff that can lead the country to chaos.
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This is a 'temporary' law that will be reconsidered after 4 years (most of the time this means it will just be continued).
The CTIVD will have supervision during and after the tab (good).
Private data can be held much longer without government approval (why?).
There is no permission needed to tap another server when a party, that is under surveillance, is moving there.
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I have mixed feelings about this. We know Russia is trying to disrupt the Netherlands because of previous taps. So on one hand it is good that the government can quickly react to such threads. On the other hand it has huge privacy implications.
Some people in this thread think that TLS will keep us private but that is not how it works when they can listen to all traffic. For example they can see I posted a request to Hacker News on a specific time. Then it is a matter of finding all posts that were made around that timestamp to see what I wrote and what my username is.
I think this is a lot of work to do. Just ask some 3 letters agencies for some help on some malware or on some "router firmware bugs" to be exploited etc. They don't care about hacker news readers or posting comments (because this implies you must know the DNS first, etc). They care about botnets DDoS-ing your railway infrastructure, ransomware on hospitals, serious stuff that can lead the country to chaos.
On hn everything is public so if you only have the time at which two or three posts where submitted you can find the user in question easily.
I am sure it is there to stay as no other thing is going to stay forever as much as “temporary” law giving authorities more power.