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I applaud the technical community rallying against the bill like this, but I fear that technical solutions are ultimately useless for this issue. If the politi
by bicubic 8y ago
I applaud the technical community rallying against the bill like this, but I fear that technical solutions are ultimately useless for this issue.
If the political climate stays the course, all the technical solutions for overcoming surveillance will eventually become marginalised and labelled as terrorist materials. Access will be blocked, anyone in possession may eventually face jail time.
AU customs is already searching the phones of people entering the country, it's not hard to imagine they might start denying entry to people with strong crypto capable apps like Signal.
I think this is a losing battle if it can't be fought at the legislation level...
- zimablue 8y agoThere are two levels where ultimately tech wins: 1: end to end cryptography is easier to make than break When what you're describing happens and it's banned, there's a level two technical solution: 2: put the software onto your machine in such a way that it's not possible to know that the software is on the machine without entering a specific code. Basically an at-rest encrypted volume, which looks like unwritten blocks. I'm not a crypto guy but that seems in principle impossible to detect or ban in the long run.
- chopin 8y agoWhile you may hide it in the way you described, normally apps spread their usage all over the place. As for example all OS have a list of last used apps. I think for this to work not only the app has to be crafted carefully but also the OS has to cooperate.
- nradov 8y agoThat's only possible if application hiding is integrated into the OS. Mobile device vendors are unlikely to support such a feature.