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by DINKDINK 1915 days ago
Do you think the Roman Catholic Church will give up the Geocentric status of the Bible? Like it or not, political power structures have no ability to impose their preference on rebellious reality.

Governments lost the war against information, cryptography, and money. The most charitable interpretation one can have for tyranny is that if you're going to talk about the tanks in Tienanmen, it's more costly to do it privately.
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Mediterraneo10 1915 days ago
> Governments lost the war against ... cryptography

I don't think so. The vast majority of people communicating around the world today are doing so through backdoored platforms like Whatsapp or WeChat, and running backdoored operating systems or backdoored processors. Sure, there is a tiny population of cypherpunks who might really have good opsec, but at this point it is no longer a government's "war" against anything: the war is won and some ultra-low-level unrest doesn't change that fact.

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Sebb767 1915 days ago
While I agree that one shouldn't trust WhatsApp and I don't use it, I don't think it is fair to simply label it as backdoored without further proof. It uses Signals encryption after all, despite its drawbacks (i.e. single-client only or multi-client with a rather bad setup).
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Mediterraneo10 1915 days ago
By default WhatsApp backs up everything to Google Drive in plaintext. You might turn that feature off, but the vast majority of a person's contacts likely won't.
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gruez 1915 days ago
wechat yes, but AFAIK whatsapp uses the signal protocol? Not to mention half of the US uses iOS which has imessage
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exyi 1915 days ago
Without proper (=widespread) key verification and with unencrypted backups to cloud (AFAIK, did not use WA for a while fortunately).
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filleduchaos 1915 days ago
The only reason why the RCC has "given up" the geocentric status of the bible is that it has lost political power over the centuries, and newer more powerful political entities have ascended in its place.

Political power very much has the ability to impose its preference on "reality". That is exactly why it exists.

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lottin 1915 days ago
If you think all governments are tyrannical I guess you need to move to a failed state. They are all lovely places.
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