Whittaker and Signal are only going to be able to hold up that umbrella from mass interception for only so long, and we need some fresh thinking in new directio

Whittaker and Signal are only going to be able to hold up that umbrella from mass interception for only so long, and we need some fresh thinking in new directions, as there is no "governments vs. corporations" dichotomy anymore. Instead of providing legal e2ee rights or protections for oligarchic platforms, breaking their hold on software distribution will do much more to ensure human growth and progress. The big thing that happened since the 90s crypto wars was Snowden's "turnkey totalitarianism" prediction arrived and almost prevailed. The irony was the only thing that stopped it was the basic weaknesses of encryption and security on mobile phones (e.g. Android's fragmentation and some IC encryption sabotage) which made strong digital identity non-viable for policymakers to deploy at scale during the pandemic (newbs BTFO'd, lol. u kno who u are). I was surprised as anyone, and my mind has changed about whether we should really want secure unhackable devices given who we've seen can organize to use them against us. The only thing that saved humanity from that was the crappy mobile device security that we in the privacy field had been trying to improve. I'm glad we failed. Not disagreeing with Whittaker, but we need some new thinking as the past does not resemble our present at all.