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by strictfp 5174 days ago
You can't hack the law. All the legislators have to do is to make it mandatory for the site owners to be able to search through site contents.
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It would be pretty easy to build a tool to route around that type of law. I create a service that encrypts blobs of data (encryptmyblo.bs), and uses a (publicly defined somewhere) postMessage API to communicate that blob to and from a key value store provided by a third party. I have my friend set up a key value store service provider that stores and retrieves blobs (storemyblo.bs), including the facility to search for stored blobs of data based on binary strings.

Because the services exchange those KVPs via a postMessage API, neither service is actually communicating with one another directly or have a formal association. The user is effectively (via the browser) moving the data from one service to another. Since EncryptMyBlo.bs doesn't store any data, and StoreMyBlo.bs doesn't have visibility into the data, neither service would be in violation of those requirements.

It would also be pretty easy to make encryption illegal.