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Other than the fact that the author clearly views any means by which people can communicate electronically in total privacy as a form of "extremism" he does hig
by wheaties 9y ago
Other than the fact that the author clearly views any means by which people can communicate electronically in total privacy as a form of "extremism" he does highlight some scary stuff. It really is only a matter of time before some judge allows someone to sue some company for end-to-end encryption because that person may have had a conversation which resulted in a bad deed. That's more scary than anything else I've read in a long time.
- 13of40 9y agoI think the real danger is that if the government starts regulating end-to-end encryption we're going to end up in a Kafka-esque situation like we have with radio encryption - i.e. the technology is freely available off the shelf, but any attempt to actually use it without the right license or on the wrong frequency, etc., can suddenly turn into a federal felony.
- jtbayly 9y agoThis is not scary. People communicate in secret all the time. It can be done with a piece of paper in a lockbox at a bank. It's one thing if the bank refuses to let the FBI into one of the lockboxes they use. It's another thing entirely if the bank says, "We don't have a key. Nothing we can do to help you." The latter is E2E encryption.