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The end result is that it isn't economical or practical to do it. Which is a resoundingly good thing.
by hkt 3y ago
The end result is that it isn't economical or practical to do it. Which is a resoundingly good thing.
- cassianoleal 3y agoPrecisely. Which is also why we need strong E2EE assurances. I heard the argument that physical phone lines have already been prone to interception so banning E2EE (or mandating backdoors) would be similar. The difference is that wiretapping requires a lot of work and is expensive and as such has to be done only for specific cases. Backdooring E2EE means cheap population-level surveillance.