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Feels like criminals will eventually get encrypted communication right and there won’t be anything left for police to do.

by kubb 2y ago

gambiting 2y ago
Vast majority of criminals are actually stupid though. For every criminal using quantum guaranteed encryption there will be 10 just doing normal unencrypted calls over regular GSM - you use the same tactics against criminals that have been used forever, before IMs were even invented - you infiltrate these groups, arrest lower members, get them to incriminate the people higher up until you dismantle the entire structure. Yeah I know it sounds simple and in reality there are million other steps to do this - but it has been done in the past and is still being done now. That's what the police will do. They caught criminals before they could read their messages, they will catch them again when they can't read their messages.
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Cthulhu_ 2y ago
What makes you believe they don't / didn't already? That's the thing, if it's done right you'll never know until it's found out and decrypted like what is in this article.
ActionHank 2y ago
If the marketing is to be believed we are months away from having AI assist someone with no dev, technology, devops background just asking for an app like this.
- kubb 2y ago
  I mean, nobody really believes that, this is just what you have to say if you have a stake in an AI company. Or you don’t know what you’re talking about.
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago
  I'm not holding my breath for AI enabling someone with no tech background to get encryption right.
paxys 2y ago
Encrypted communication is already a solved problem. The people being caught are the ones who don't have the technical skills to use them correctly.
dist-epoch 2y ago
When you have tens of thousands of criminals using a single app, the reward of cracking that in some way is gigantic, and these apps are created by a team of a few people which can't cover every angle like Apple can.
ruthmarx 2y ago
Then they'll refine stenography and it will be citizens who suffer increasingly more.

Feels like criminals will eventually get encrypted communication right and there won’t be anything left for police to do.

by kubb 2y ago

Feels like criminals will eventually get encrypted communication right and there won’t be anything left for police to do.

gambiting 2y ago

Vast majority of criminals are actually stupid though. For every criminal using quantum guaranteed encryption there will be 10 just doing normal unencrypted calls over regular GSM - you use the same tactics against criminals that have been used forever, before IMs were even invented - you infiltrate these groups, arrest lower members, get them to incriminate the people higher up until you dismantle the entire structure. Yeah I know it sounds simple and in reality there are million other steps to do this - but it has been done in the past and is still being done now. That's what the police will do. They caught criminals before they could read their messages, they will catch them again when they can't read their messages.

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Cthulhu_ 2y ago

What makes you believe they don't / didn't already? That's the thing, if it's done right you'll never know until it's found out and decrypted like what is in this article.

ActionHank 2y ago

If the marketing is to be believed we are months away from having AI assist someone with no dev, technology, devops background just asking for an app like this.

kubb 2y ago
I mean, nobody really believes that, this is just what you have to say if you have a stake in an AI company. Or you don’t know what you’re talking about.
AnimalMuppet 2y ago
I'm not holding my breath for AI enabling someone with no tech background to get encryption right.

paxys 2y ago

Encrypted communication is already a solved problem. The people being caught are the ones who don't have the technical skills to use them correctly.

dist-epoch 2y ago

When you have tens of thousands of criminals using a single app, the reward of cracking that in some way is gigantic, and these apps are created by a team of a few people which can't cover every angle like Apple can.

ruthmarx 2y ago

Then they'll refine stenography and it will be citizens who suffer increasingly more.