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Yeah for those of us who remember it, what Signal is doing now is what TPB were doing many years ago. Of course TPB were also enabling the sharing of masses of

Yeah for those of us who remember it, what Signal is doing now is what TPB were doing many years ago. Of course TPB were also enabling the sharing of masses of copyrighted material. But what Signal is doing, in the eyes of police and intelligence community, is almost the same. I honestly see a bleak future where the development of secure applications is forced underground. And the next step would be total control of the internet so no anonymous networks can exist. And after that we'll just use radio, so really there is no way to stop people wanting to be private. Because the Stasi searched for pirate radio stations with vans.

ben_w 5y ago
Eh, if they do they’ll eventually discover some naughty persons have made a website that looks like a foreign bank right up until you log in with the appropriate username and password, at which point it turns out to be a naughty chat forum. And no way to break the https encryption in advance without also making all online banking vulnerable to hackers. Perhaps they’ll try to get around that by van Eck phreaking everyone’s phone/tablet/vr/computer screens. That will explode in the faces of both law enforcement and politicians when the fantasies in table 2 of this paper have official faces attached to them [link is research paper titled “What Exactly Is an Unusual Sexual Fantasy?”]: https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/docs/FWG/GSC/Publication/3702/524/11026/1/341972/6/O0001238633_What_Exactly_Is_an_Unusual_Sexual_Fantasy.pdf https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/docs/FWG/GSC/Pub... (Before anyone thinks of the obvious fantasy on that list “good, I don’t want such people in power!”, the egg will still be very much on the face). And last I checked, unlawful drug use is sufficiently common[0] that actually trying to enforce it fairly would bankrupt the nation[0], so same applies to other types of naughty. [0] (in) the UK

ben_w 5y ago

Eh, if they do they’ll eventually discover some naughty persons have made a website that looks like a foreign bank right up until you log in with the appropriate username and password, at which point it turns out to be a naughty chat forum. And no way to break the https encryption in advance without also making all online banking vulnerable to hackers. Perhaps they’ll try to get around that by van Eck phreaking everyone’s phone/tablet/vr/computer screens. That will explode in the faces of both law enforcement and politicians when the fantasies in table 2 of this paper have official faces attached to them [link is research paper titled “What Exactly Is an Unusual Sexual Fantasy?”]: https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/docs/FWG/GSC/Publication/3702/524/11026/1/341972/6/O0001238633_What_Exactly_Is_an_Unusual_Sexual_Fantasy.pdf https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/docs/FWG/GSC/Pub... (Before anyone thinks of the obvious fantasy on that list “good, I don’t want such people in power!”, the egg will still be very much on the face). And last I checked, unlawful drug use is sufficiently common[0] that actually trying to enforce it fairly would bankrupt the nation[0], so same applies to other types of naughty. [0] (in) the UK