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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You could say that for everyone pushing for an encryption ban. If they use whatsapp, encryption, if they use https websites, encryption. Banning encryption is nigh impossible, it's like trying to ban prime numbers. What they'll actually do is get even easier backdoors and criminalise the masses that use it while still using it themselves.

[–] Reverendender 35 points 2 months ago
[–] loutr 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They don't want to ban encryption, they want to block encrypted chat apps, precisely so they don't have to build backdoors. AFAIK it's not possible to break signal/WhatsApp encryption without access to the targeted device, and once you have access you can get the messages directly without having to break the encryption.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's no encryption that a 5$ wrench and a bit o time can't break

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What if Randall would sell $5 wrenches with XKCD logo?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do we know if the WhatsApp encryption is not breakable, if yes how? It could maybe have backdoors inside

[–] loutr 3 points 2 months ago

I guess it could, as we have to take meta's word for it, and a quick google search hasn't turned up any independent security audit.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Encryption for me but not for thee.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

This logic is the foundation of how the regimes rule the peasants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It’s a privilege lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Privacy is for the elites, what needs do the peasants have for it anyways?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Let the Elites keep their privacy, and the Peasants their pitchforks.

-- some revolutionary leader? I dunno

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

This kind of thing just confirms how it's really all about the Power elites keeping an eye out on the plebes trying to organise and change things so that they can kill any such things in the early stages.

Democracy was supposed to slowly bring Autocracies around to its way of doing things but instead what we're seing is the very opposite of that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

European aristocracy is scared of the working class. They will tremble...! < Bolshevik chorus swells >

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thumbnail looks like a really confused Canadian flag.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

so, a danish flag.