• @[email protected]
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    812 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

      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.

      • hswolf
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        142 months ago

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

        • @hakunawazo
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          22 months ago

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

      • foremanguy
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        32 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          32 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.

  • @AbidanYre
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    572 months ago

    Encryption for me but not for thee.

    • sunzu2
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      152 months ago

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

  • @Aceticon
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    112 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.

  • @moistclump
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    52 months ago

    Thumbnail looks like a really confused Canadian flag.