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I feel like anti encryption bills will only ban it from the main stream and be used to punish people who don't let the police see their devices (pricefield.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like anti encryption bills do nothing but allow the mainstream public go get their DMS used for ads, and punish people who don't give all their data to cops upon arrest. I feel like people like me would just use foreign matrix instances where encryption is legal

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[–] GeekyNerdyNerd 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be incredibly stupid to do that for the commerical real estate industry alone. The online retail industry alone is equal in size, and that doesn't even take into the dozens of other similarly large industries that would become too risky to exist without TLS and other encryption schemes.

I think it's significantly more likely that the effort is actually genuinely about muh terrorism/muh pedos than I about protecting landlords that are dwarfed by the industries this kinds crap would undermine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah really it would undermine the very foundation of the modern world. e-commerce, online banking, retail and commercial money transfers, online payment providers, account security, business communication, and a million other things rely on encryption. That's why it is so baffling to me that they're trying to kill it. Unless the plan is something like "let us read your Facebook and WhatsApp messages", in which case it's just creepy and unconstitutional.