[NoMoreNicksLeft]

Is it not true in technology that either everyone has access to protected communications, or none do?

If the world needs products like Signal, then we just have to accept the inevitable fact that everyone will get products like Signal, or none will. This isn't enriched uranium, it can't be restricted to the few approved.

[hiatus]

> This isn't enriched uranium, it can't be restricted to the few approved.

You say this in jest but encryption was export-controlled under ITAR in my lifetime. With the persistent government attacks on encryption increasing in frequency around the world, I wouldn't be surprised if we see more attempts at containing it in ways not unlike the control of enriched uranium.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

> You say this in jest but encryption was export-controlled under ITAR in my lifetime.

And then Zimmerman sort of screwed that up, didn't he? I remember, bet we're about the same age.

> With the persistent government attacks on encryption increasing in frequency around the world, I wouldn't be surprised if we see more attempts at containing it in ways not unlike the control of enriched uranium.

Everything possible must be done to thwart such efforts.