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Apple did the right thing in the UK. This means that neither politicians nor the military will benefit from E2EE, while it's clear that they wished that just th
by qwertox 2y ago
Apple did the right thing in the UK. This means that neither politicians nor the military will benefit from E2EE, while it's clear that they wished that just the plebes would be affected by this.
Maybe all IMs should then drop encryption altogether, bringing us back to the stone age of clear text messaging (email sent unencrypted between MTAs).
Because this "please let them use encryption, but let us peek around it" just doesn't feel right.
- Havoc 2y ago> Because this "please let them use encryption, but let us peek around it" just doesn't feel right. Most of gov regulation works like that. You can have guns but only registered ones. Machines guns illegal unless it’s military etc
- sadeshmukh 2y agoBut it is not encryption if it can be broken. It's like guns, but they can remotely disable them with devices planted in each.