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I wonder how they are going to enforce this law on cryptographically secure communication software written by some anonymous group and released as open source s
by nirvana 14y ago
I wonder how they are going to enforce this law on cryptographically secure communication software written by some anonymous group and released as open source software out on the net? I guess being able to pin the maintainer of the github repository to the wall might be a problem, but its easy to imagine this just forcing development underground and users upgrading only in big jumps every couple of years.
Its not like this software would need to be changing all the time... people could email each other their ip addresses or the software could take care of it for them in the background. (e.g.: when its running it polls your email server to see if you've gotten an email with your friends ip address being updated, signed by his private key, then if you want to call him your client has the right email address to send the packets to directly)... negating the need for any kind of centralized server. (I'm sure there are better ways to do this.)
Write a javascript version that can run in the browser and anyone with a web browser can then use it (and you can sidestep the appstore as well, because you can make downloadable installable javascript apps that show up on the home screen in this way. Apple's had that in there since before the appstore and it still works and is supported.)
- lurchpop 14y agoThey can just make it illegal to use that software, and use a gun silencer analogy. a 75 year old judge would eat that up.