The people behind Chat Control claim that they are not breaking end-to-end encryption. At the same time, private messages on services with end-to-end encryption will be intercepted to uncover crimes.

This means that we have to seriously start talking about the thought experiment Schrödinger's chat. We can safely continue to use chat services that offer secure communication as long as we buy into the premise that the end-to-end encryption is not broken even when each message is available to a third-party service managed by the state. Yep, the secret communication from sender to recipient is both encrypted and unencrypted at the same time.

Or we ask politicians to get their act together and really understand and be honest about the mass surveillance they intend to introduce.

Image description: Schrödinger's chat: A communication that is both encrypted and unencrypted at the same time. Example: Chat Control monitors to expose crimes, but “does not break end-to-end encryption”. The illustration shows two people sending messages to each other. At the top of the image, a person is wearing headphones attached to a listening device that has cords looping behind the back of each person chatting and attaches to their phones.