Announced chat control by the EU

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Wed Oct 8 22:04:18 CEST 2025


> Means, you need a Git account and chat over two GIT Accounts via a GIT 
> Server with each other, and it appears as a git commit with ciphertext :-)

This may be an interesting proof of concept, but I wouldn't use it for 
anything serious. The entire point of Git is to keep records forever and 
track who said what, when, and where.

If you can't reliably delete the messages, then you're in reality 
creating an archive of traffic that can be exploited at some future 
date. Further, the amount of metadata being generated is nontrivial.

Secure communications require much more than ciphertext. The metadata 
generated by Git alone, in this context, gives me serious concern.

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