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> How do they want to prevent someone from creating his own end-to-end encryption app? It's basically impossible. One can also use steganography to hide messa
by loup-vaillant 10y ago
> How do they want to prevent someone from creating his own end-to-end encryption app?
It's basically impossible. One can also use steganography to hide messages in lolcat pictures, or music files. The only way to prevent this, I think, is to start a totalitarian surveillance state where using Free or custom software or hardware is punishable by death. Even then, I'm not sure this will be enough.
- thehardsphere 10y agoGiven that even the most totalitarian states eventually fail and don't ever have complete and total control over the entire populace, I think you're correct that it will not be enough. What they really need is to invent time travel, and murder Ada Lovelace.
- M_Grey 10y agoThat should be a canonical test for the implausibility of any policy. "Do we need to invent a time machine for this to work?"