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by strictnein 3244 days ago
It'll be interesting in 10-15 years when the US is one of the few countries left that allow unfettered access to encryption, VPNs, secure messaging, etc.

How does the saying go? "The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe"
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throwawaymanbot 3244 days ago
its only a matter of time before the USA outlaws these also. I know the agencies are itching for it. Even though it would be unworkable.
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strictnein 3244 days ago
Doubtful. Much of this is protected by the 1st amendment, since code was recognized as speech.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...

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dsfyu404ed 3244 days ago
Keep dreaming.

Forced to choose between the agencies and big business who do you think the legislators will choose? Sure they can side with the agencies but if business isn't on-board with that checks will get written and there will be new legislators.

I hope the agencies force the choice. It gives the legislators a chance to do all the things they should have done after Hoover left.

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throwawaymanbot 3244 days ago
I really do hope you are right.

I do remember Big Business complained about HTTPS use, coz it blocked them "hoovering"/vacuuming up customer info. (excuse the pun)

Also, the Govt has liaison people with some of the Big Corps. Not to mention big corps give big checks to both sides, as routine, there is no financial hurt on the Pol Parties ever sadly. ATT for instance gets paid millions to give up the data.

Update: I just read Amber Rudd (UK Pol goon) created the "Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism with Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc.) and asked them to remove end-to-end encryption from their products "

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