3 ms·

My argument is that limiting online data transmission to text or whatever still doesn't solve the problem. Hell just get two transmission sources and two receiv

• toss1 7y ago
  Yes, I fully understood from the beginning that there are workarounds that mean that this can technically still be used for transmitting images. The point is that this remains a pragmatically useful solution. While it could technically be used to transmit images by parallelizing it, etc., the goal is to make it bad enough for those purposes that practically, other solutions are better. By creating a really bad channel for images, many other solutions become pragmatically better (e.g., snail mail & encrypted USB drive, carrier pigeon, etc), even though it remains mathematically possible to use this. The analogy is a common home front door lock set. They are good enough to prevent casual break-ins, but can cracked in minutes by a professional burglar. The lock does not need to be perfect, only good enough that it becomes pragmatically easier to break in by other routes (e.g., crack a window, etc.) The question is, what is your solution? Ban this too because it is mathematically imperfect -- i.e., ban all encryption -- or what else?