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I have seen this argument over and over but there is a power law and authorities just need to cut off the head off the probability distribution. Centralized mes
by EGreg 5y ago
I have seen this argument over and over but there is a power law and authorities just need to cut off the head off the probability distribution. Centralized messengers are no hydra.
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoJust wait until German police discovers a thing called SMS. Right now, we are lucky that Fax is still a thing in Germany, and the whole internet thing is just a "Neuland" (new land), as ex-chancellor Merkel admitted.
- EGreg 5y agoOh yes, because local telecommunication companies delivering SMS using archaic, non-end-to-end encrypted protocols are TOTALLY more resilient to government censorship than Telegram :-P Look, when it comes to SMS and craigslist-style things etc. I bet they will want to just keep them up so they can act as a dragnet for the fools who use them to organize criminal activity.
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoI'm not telling that SMS is secure. S stands for short, not secure. But given how easy it is to fake and forge SMS, at least one can have a plausible deniability if their SMS got intercepted and read.
- EGreg 5y agoHehe that’s true I started saying anyone can have anonymity and plausible deniability after they post their private keys publicly online :)