CypherBay
Notes on privacy, encryption and policy that affects CypherBay.
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Why CypherBay is already immune to voluntary scanning, what self-hosting shields you from under the far harsher CSAR proposal, and how to close the rest of the gap: Tor or a no-logs VPN, GrapheneOS on mobile, and Linux on desktop.
On 9 July 2026 the European Parliament extended mass message scanning through a procedural trick that let a rejected motion pass anyway. That vote is nothing compared to what CSAR, the regulation everyone calls Chat Control 2.0, would actually do to every encrypted conversation in Europe. Here is what happened, what is coming next, and why we will never help build it.