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It's too much to hope for, but I wish the right people could do this for the nonsense around e2e encryption these past few years. Imagine if politicians' https
by mrkeen 3y ago
It's too much to hope for, but I wish the right people could do this for the nonsense around e2e encryption these past few years.
Imagine if politicians' https connections could be identified and automatically downgraded to http.
- krisoft 3y agoWhat would happen then? How would that lead to the change you hope for?
- mrkeen 3y agoI think they would stop pushing so hard to break encryption if the people sitting next to them in cafes started live-tweeting the politicians' internet traffic.
- krisoft 3y agoBut that misses the point. The politicians are not arguing for a world where nobody can encrypt. They want strong encryption which can only be opened by two groups: the intended recipient, and the authorities. We know that such a system will inevitably lead to other groups also gaining the ability. Rich criminals, security services all around the globe (friendlies and the enemies too). Either by bribing, or impersonating authority figures or by stealing the backdoor keys. What is at dispute with the politicians is the probability of this happening. How would a service voluntarily leaking the private information of politicians convince them that we cannot build a backdoor into encryption without that backdoor proliferating widely?