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The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Killing encryption is like trying to kill math

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Right? Try to kill one program and someone else will create their own. It's honestly not hard. Have a secret, take that and your data, run it through math, numbers come out. Store the numbers and secret separately

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I wish em luck lol. I wrote an e2ee messaging app from first principles as a programming exercise when I was 15.