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Open source will find a way around it; there's no reason to be afraid. Unless one day their spyware is installed at the hardware level but that would be the equ
by amelius 1y ago
Open source will find a way around it; there's no reason to be afraid. Unless one day their spyware is installed at the hardware level but that would be the equivalent of raiding our homes, so that's not very likely.
- ekianjo 1y agoopen source wont save you. if they make encryption without backdoor illegal they will just throw you in jail
- wobfan 1y agoIt'll definitely save the criminals. Selling drugs on the Internet is also illegal. Selling them in real life too. How many people are doing it still? Doesn't seem very effective, this solution.
- amelius 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
- ghusto 1y agoThey will once they catch you doing it, yes. The people who this _won't_ stop however, are criminals.
- morkalork 1y agoSeeing that carve out for Google with non-licensed androids being banned from the age verification app., it looks like there's going to be a heavy swing towards trusted devices and apps. in general. Perhaps untrusted ones will be blocked from carrier networks. And then what? You'll be able to have phones with your own custom apps/chat installed that's useless, or phones that are useful but you're stuck with only official, compromised apps.
- inglor_cz 1y agoMany OSS developers live in Europe and the logical next step will be throwing them in jail for production of illegal software.