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If a technology enables criminals to coordinate without any hope of detection that seems worthy of some fear to me.
by thomassmith65 4y ago
If a technology enables criminals to coordinate without any hope of detection that seems worthy of some fear to me.
- zirgs 4y agoThat's the price you have to pay if you want to live in a free country.
- thomassmith65 4y agoThe point of the original article is that it's not black and white. There is no, and never can be any, entirely free country. I want to be free enough to have good privacy, but not so free as to allow a crime ring to take over my town.
- DocTomoe 4y agoSome people say that already has happened, and the crime ring is called "the government".
- p0pcult 4y ago>Some people Other people think those first people are complete nutjobs.
- philippejara 4y agoif you are in a position a crime ring can take over your town, no amount of surveillance will help, it will most likely make the crime ring stronger by giving them access to it, there's a joke here about the government being already the crime ring I guess.
- sabellito 4y agoAnyone can host an e2e chat solution, trying to take Signal down doesn't change anything for serious organised crime.
- tmpburning 4y ago[flagged]
- tensor 4y agoThis has always been true. The old fashion way of doing it was called "getting together in person someplace private." Yes Signal makes it a bit easier, but also general technology makes it harder too.
- ilyt 4y agoThey can do that. The cat is out of the bag. Worst case they can just use GPG/PGP, S/MIME or a bunch of other ways. Backdooring a communication medium just means they won't use it in the first place.