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A government doesn't need to launch an all-out war on encryption to get its way. They only need to lean on relatively few people - the humans who live in the U
by mrkeen 7y ago
A government doesn't need to launch an all-out war on encryption to get its way.
They only need to lean on relatively few people - the humans who live in the US and who run Facebook, Apple, etc. to put back-doors in their services. Or worse, they put back-doors in their services while denying that they have done so.
The fact that strong encryption still exists will be of little use if it's not what the bulk of people actually use.
- sam0x17 7y agoThat is a legitimate concern, which is why we have to fight this.
- AJ007 7y agoThere is also the possibility that using less secure communications hardware and software could be exposing individuals and companies to criminal and civil liabilities due to other legal requirements. In the US this is already the situation with regards to handling classified information. Despite all of the rhetoric and public statements, the legal burden and actual enforcement seems to be going very much the opposite direction in the US and EU. There is good reason to suspect that the monitoring (and centralized censorship) infrastructure built up in other nations could end up producing the opposite desired goals in the long term.
- sam0x17 7y agoYes, I would absolutely love to see a GDPR suit against FB for allowing US gov to see some European person's data. Would be tremendous.
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