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> You kind of quickly end up in some weird dystopian cyberpunk setting thinking all of this through. The most dystopian concept out of everything you mentioned
by bigyabai 1y ago
> You kind of quickly end up in some weird dystopian cyberpunk setting thinking all of this through.
The most dystopian concept out of everything you mentioned is still "you can't install unsigned software" to me.
- simonw 1y agoGood luck preventing people from loading up a web page that runs a pure JavaScript (or WebAssembly) implementation of common cryptography algorithms and lets people copy and paste each other encrypted messages.
- roywiggins 1y agoChat Control wants to require on-device scanning, so if this becomes common they can move to mandating scanning at the OS or browser level as well.
- __loam 1y agoGood luck convincing American tech to take on a liability like this. There's a reason big tech is moving to e2e encryption like Signal and it isn't user privacy. Telling governments to fuck off because you don't have the data limits liability.
- bigyabai 1y ago"Luck" wasn't what coerced American tech businesses into subsuming the PRISM program liability. Your naivete is admirable though.