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by AnthonyMouse 718 days ago
"Our democratically controlled communication infrastructure" honestly deserves to be deprecated and replaced with some kind of federated voice system that comes out of the IETF instead of the telcos. What kind of antediluvian nonsense doesn't use end-to-end encryption in 2024?
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_heimdall 718 days ago
AT&T has a long history with three letter agencies. If they ever did implement e2e encryption it would certainly come with backdoors that make it e2e only by name.
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AnthonyMouse 718 days ago
All the more reason to have the IETF do it and leave AT&T out of it.

Any modern system is going to use IP as a transport. Even the traditional phone network is VoIP under the hood in modern networks. The replacement system should be kept as far from the influence of the last mile providers as possible.

The thing that definitely shouldn't happen is that you get your phone number from them. Let it be "user@host" like email or otherwise assigned via DNS.

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