Killing encryption is like trying to kill math
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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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
I wish em luck lol. I wrote an e2ee messaging app from first principles as a programming exercise when I was 15.
Can't wait for a major cyberattack to hit UK and force its citizens awake. The UK will inevitably fail.
Actions speak louder than words.
Governments are too addicted to the idea of being Big Brother that it's no longer just a cautionary tale.
The only real solution is for people to learn how to use technology for themselves. Instead we have an entire generation of people who've made the Faustian bargain and accepted wholesale spying on every aspect of their lives in exchange for not having to learn how to use the tools that they depend on.
Apple is being presented here as being on the side of privacy for doing this. But people wouldn't be in this situation if Apple hadn't created a walled garden in order to trap people that use their products.
Those people have never had to learn about the technology that they use and are now completely dependent on Apple to provide services to them.
Governments no longer have to fight everyone about privacy or encryption. They only need to compel Apple, Google and Meta into giving up their user data, because the users have no capability to resist.
Why can’t customers just pay for a service that does exactly what they want from another country?