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> Eventually, the elderly, uninformed US government is going to pass a law requiring a back door. Eventually, the elederly, uninformed governments are going to
by jstanley 8y ago
> Eventually, the elderly, uninformed US government is going to pass a law requiring a back door.
Eventually, the elederly, uninformed governments are going to die off, to be replaced with younger governments. Still uninformed, but hopefully less tyrannical.
> offshore private messaging will become a thing.
This won't have to happen. Just because the law says there has to be a backdoor doesn't mean open source software developers will comply. Develop your software anonymously, release it anonymously, and run it wherever you want. It doesn't need to be a service provided by a company in a foreign land, it can just be software you run on your own computer.
- cyphar 8y ago> Still uninformed, but hopefully less tyrannical. I don't think this is a reasonable thing to just hope for. Historically, governments have always had tyrannical streaks and I don't think it makes much sense to simply assert that "this time it'll be different". It probably won't.
- jstanley 8y agoI think policy just lags social acceptance. It never used to be legal to be homosexual, for example, then it became socially acceptable, and then a generation of politicians had to die off, and then it became legal.
- aleksei 8y ago> It doesn't need to be a service provided by a company in a foreign land, it can just be software you run on your own computer. Problem is, in a worst case scenario ISPs could be compelled to proxy all traffic through government boxes for analysis. At that point any suspicious activity will probably be frowned upon.
- mirimir 8y agoThat's why it's gotta be spread as malware, for plausible deniability, and use covert channels, to make detection difficult.