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They'll just ban encrypted apps?
by koakuma-chan 1y ago
They'll just ban encrypted apps?
- kriops 1y agoDefine 'encrypted app' in a way that is not just completely arbitrary and internally inconsistent.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoThey'll just ban apps like Signal.
- lawn 1y agoWhich is comical because the Swedish military has standardized signal for all non-classified communication.
- koakuma-chan 1y agouh oh
- kriops 1y agoAs far as definitions go, that's circular.
- anticorporate 1y agoIt's almost as if being able to ban things in a completely arbitrary and internally inconsistent way was exactly the point...
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 1y agoAnd if they do that, do you think it will affect what criminals do?
- shadowgovt 1y agoYes. Because it will decrease the legitimate traffic online that is encrypted, which makes it easier to pick out encrypted channels from the noise. A few listeners at key nodes in the country's communications network to flag encrypted signals for investigation or simple disruption and you're G2G. It's the "If you ban guns, only criminals will have guns" theory, except the other side of that coin is "It's real easy to see who the criminals are if guns are banned: they're the folks carrying guns."
- porridgeraisin 1y agoHow do you filter encrypted channels from the noise? For example, say the criminals now communicate by having a browser extension write e2ee encrypted todo items on a shared todo list app.
- anthk 1y agoAnd then they will just post SPAM messages at a defunct Usenet group as a some of internal code to share illegal stuff as nothing.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoI don't have enough context, why are they trying to ban encryption in the first place?