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It is trivial to create an app using encryption to send messages between two users. On Android you can sideload so no need for app store. You can also solve th
by kmonsen 6y ago
It is trivial to create an app using encryption to send messages between two users. On Android you can sideload so no need for app store.
You can also solve this with a webpage, this way it can be used on all devices.
The point is that creating a secure channel few users use is pretty trivial unless you outlaw crypto libraries. These laws can only take down apps/websites in mainstream use.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoSure, but you also need to recruit, and it's sort of hard to find new candidates if all you use is your super secret crypto app.
- kmonsen 6y agoTrue, but when I worked on this recruiting was mostly an in person thing. For example for Muslim terrorists it was in a radical mosque. You can still radicalize with writings on the internet, they just need to make the first step in person.
- crististm 6y agoHmm - it doesn't work that way and you know it.
- orblivion 6y agoCould they inspect traffic at the ISP level and come knocking if they can't decipher what you're transmitting?
- numpad0 6y agoThis comment sounds like “there is no particular technical obstacles for any nation to start and complete an Apollo Program equivalent”
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoTerrorists don't need an information exchange channel to be a nice looking app with great UX, stickers and animated emojis. Even regular GPG-encrypted email using random rarely used email addresses will work quite fine.
- concordDance 6y agoThese algorithms already exist. They are stored on criminal harddrives and aren't going to magically vanish with new laws. Making an Apollo program requires a bit more than ctrl+v.
- cuspycode 6y agoIf you do the key exchange face-to-face, all you need is some bytes from /dev/random for the key, and the cryptographic algorithm Data XOR Key. They can't outlaw the XOR operator and they can't "backdoor" all random number sources (not even the most trivial ones), so the idea that it is even remotely possible to obtain political control of encryption is quite insane.