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Yes. You can actually flip the script with "think of the children arguments" because banning E2EE fundamentally makes children less safe. However I suspect it's
by cnity 3y ago
Yes. You can actually flip the script with "think of the children arguments" because banning E2EE fundamentally makes children less safe. However I suspect it's worse than this: these law maker's don't care about children, they care about power and establishing control over how citizens communicate. There is no argument to deter them, we can only hope to convince the public or else be damned to illegal activity as hackers.
- hnbad 3y agoGovernments love passing bills that give the government more power. Very rarely do governments pass bills to remove that power later. This is a power grab and should be treated as such. E2EE makes police work more inconvenient but it should be inconvenient. If you want to optimize for police work convenience, you get a police state.