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> but my guess is that if the government banned Signal tomorrow, fewer bad guys would use encrypted communication just because Signal is easy to use and most cr
by IIsi50MHz 4y ago
> but my guess is that if the government banned Signal tomorrow, fewer bad guys would use encrypted communication just because Signal is easy to use and most criminals aren't James Bond-style supervillains.
I was with you until this part, because I can't create a successful parse tree from it.
- whakim 4y agoMy point was that some "bad guys" aren't using encrypted communication at any cost; they're using encrypted communication that's easy enough to use. If you made encryption a bit harder to use (say, by taking away Signal), some percentage of existing "bad guys" would no longer use it. (To be clear, I don't think this is a reasonable argument for banning Signal; I just wanted to make the point that laws do affect the prevalence of encrypted communication even among criminals.)