It’s funny — Chat Control is not aimed at people who actually care about privacy. Those will always find a way to keep using encryption. The math doesn’t vanish because a law says so, and the open-source projects aren’t going away.

What it really does is push "regular" people back into surveillance by default. Most already assume their chats might be scanned or their phone might be listening, so they self-censor anyway. The law just bakes that into the mainstream tools, while the rest of us will keep using the same workarounds we always have.