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by kps 276 days ago
That doesn't work well for mass surveillance of regular people.
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We’re talking about how the ability for the public to use strong encryption is contingent on laws allowing that.

Normies won’t start using PGP. Normies will use whatever popular app their friends are on.

Those apps can have their encryption made illegal, kicked off stores, and their developers jailed. The thing protecting the developers from this isn’t the strength of their encryption, it’s the laws saying the encryption is legal.