[ketz1]

Ppl should start to use messenger apps as dump pipes and use a level 3 encryption. https://github.com/enigma-reloaded/enigma-reloaded

[hda2]

What you're suggesting is exactly what those corrupt senators want.

The reason why popular E2EE messengers are such a problem for authoritarian governments/regimes is the fact that it's transparent and enabled by default. This means that millions (or sometimes billions) of people have strong privacy without having to know anything about it.

Once E2EE is removed from these messengers, those authoritarians can focus on the rest.

Edit: one thing that really confuses me about this whole war on crypto thing is why would a democratic nation want to remove privacy from people. Don't they understand that democracy is fundamentally predicated on privacy? I have a feeling that they do.

[ehnto]

The next step is of course to vilify those who seek privacy, now that it's not the default, switching the rhetoric to suggest that anyone using encryption is surely doing so to hide illicit activities. Privacy becomes illegal at that point.

[zelphirkalt]

Maybe next, but surely already current step. Many people are already on that rhetoric.

[woodruffw]

I don't know what this is, but I'm more confident in Signal's E2EE than whatever this provides (which I don't know, because the README doesn't include a technical explanation or threat model.)

[nomendos]

Yes there will be tons of new open-source end2end encrypted apps that you can install and government shall not be able to enforce it! But the new Act will give them power to proclaim anyone using it a criminal and they can start exercising draconian fines (i.e. hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars life crippling). No matter how you slice this and when you get totality of all possibilities all scenarios end up with world destruction making this the most dangerous and most stupid Act ever!