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A paraphrase of the age-old glib phrase is in order: If you outlaw End-to-End Encryption, only criminals will have End-to-End Encryption. It should also be poi
by dspillett 4y ago
A paraphrase of the age-old glib phrase is in order: If you outlaw End-to-End Encryption, only criminals will have End-to-End Encryption.
It should also be pointed out to them that saying “you there, yes you, stop doing that” to remote, likely anonymous, criminal types, has never been effective.
- dexterdog 4y agoIt should be "If you outlaw End-to-End Encryption, only outlaws will have End-to-End Encryption."
- dspillett 4y agoYep, my brain juddered and switched tracks between criminalise/criminals and outlaw/outlaws halfway through the sentence.
- philipwhiuk 4y agoI guess it's easier to arrest people for encrypting stuff than proving they are dealing drugs.
- antibasilisk 4y agoIt's also worth pointing out that if you practise enough and with a little spare time you can do an dh key exchange with pen and paper. I look forward to the day when I am arrested for mathing too hard with random people in my neighbourhood (jk, there's not enough cops to arrest anyone anymore).
- wmf 4y agoIn practice if you offer criminals a choice of real encryption (Signal) or fake encryption (Sky ECC, Anom, etc.) they choose the fake encryption.