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You don't need to ban math to ban e2e encryption in the same way you don't need to ban physics in order to ban murder. You pass a law making it a crime to devel
by ergl 6y ago
You don't need to ban math to ban e2e encryption in the same way you don't need to ban physics in order to ban murder. You pass a law making it a crime to develop or use e2e encryption algorithms, and punish those who don't follow the law extremely harshly. The rest will comply because they'll be scared to be punished.
- astrobe_ 6y agoI think that it is pretty much the kind of wishful thinking they have. But then steganography. In this cat-and-mouse game, you do end up banning math [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_number
- ben_w 6y agoA criminal org doesn’t need end-to-end encryption to be untouchable by the authorities, all it needs is an HTTPS web server with a login page. Those are cheap enough that any organisation with at least one full-time-equivalent person on their payroll can afford to change server every week. The advantage of e2e is so a central chat server can’t be ordered to leak secrets; I can’t see how an org which doesn’t care about the law in general is going to care about that law in particular.