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Devil's advocate: the answer to that is that perfect is the enemy of good. Most "bad guys" are pretty dumb and won't bother using actually secure communication

by ahtihn 3y ago

Devil's advocate: the answer to that is that perfect is the enemy of good. Most "bad guys" are pretty dumb and won't bother using actually secure communication channels especially if messengers keep advertising that they do end-to-end encryption. And even for those who do care enough, most of them aren't all that tech-savvy and will make mistakes. All that to say that a ban doesn't have to be 100% effective to make a meaningful difference.

marcosdumay 3y ago
> especially if messengers keep advertising that they do end-to-end encryption That's probably a crime in UK. It is a crime in plenty of countries. Anyway, the most impactful an anti-e2e law can be is to force people into getting some functional thing from free-droid, instead of naively getting it from the play store. The bar of intelligence required for that is still pretty low.