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Ultimately there's nothing stopping criminals from using any number of E2E alternatives. Short of banning open source software, there's nothing the US governmen
by babypuncher 7y ago
Ultimately there's nothing stopping criminals from using any number of E2E alternatives. Short of banning open source software, there's nothing the US government can really do here. Forcing Facebook to leave in a government backdoor will just send all the criminals to other services or even to roll their own.
- SllX 7y agoUnder the Constitution the government doesn’t have a leg to stand on to either ban crypto or ban open source software. Certainly no more than it can ban algebra, Elvish or volunteer work.