HN had a big discussion on this already last week [0]. Frankly it's a nothingburger and "encrypted services" is pretty irrelevant, beyond yet another reminder t

HN had a big discussion on this already last week [0]. Frankly it's a nothingburger and "encrypted services" is pretty irrelevant, beyond yet another reminder that technical privacy and security measures are tools that make opsec possible; they're not opsec all by themselves. Businesses or individuals offering encrypted services aren't breaking the law and somehow actively rebelling against the government of their jurisdiction(s), they're offering tools that others can use for their work/lives in a more privacy preserving manner within the limits of their own abilities. The services and technical measures did their job, in that they did in fact make law enforcement go through the legal path with a specific inquiry vs warrantless mass harvesting, and depend on metadata vs clear text. But the absolute most paranoid fully encrypted anonymous leeching public wifi into Tor into a VPN into Tor again scheme wouldn't somehow prevent a person from just going ahead creating an account leaking their real world information. And recoverability vs side-channel balances will always present tradeoffs. ---- 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280689