OK thank you for elaborating. I tend to assume that such laws - "let's listen in on everything you do" - need firm and solid justification. Coming up with a simple counter-example on first try signals to me the problem has not been handled effectively (understatement of the year). I'm not talking about having the perfect solution, just.. something that does not immediately fall down on first try within a few minutes.
So they explain it to people as being able to catch criminals, but they known it won’t work against that?
How can you maintain such a position? At some point you’ll have to explain your reasons for draconian measures like this.
That’s why I’m spamming people with “it won’t work” because so many seem fooled by this. You will catch exactly zero people with this. The only people you’ll catch will be the ones that you would have caught anyway, because of their nonchalance.
Criminals are using specialty phones or should I say, were using, because this was recently cracked and thus became useless. Catching Taghi in NL was a famous result of that.
Point is that dangerous people will use specialty devices/services and being legal is certainly not one of the requirements.
I am using a special keyboard that outputs these sequences automatically. Must my keyboard driver send the keypresses to the EU? Fine, here are they: AFC628BCF627.
I understand Signal is handicapped now, but I couldn’t care less about Signal. I only care about being able to communicate in private. Why don’t we implement this stuff at a lower layer?
Surely the guys on top must see this is an endless game that they will never win? It’s not an arm’s race, it’s fundamentally impossible.
We are system creators and let those systems do the work. We dislike getting our hands dirty and not just physically.
Companies are thinly veiled machines ran by grinding oiled up humans as cogs in intricate patterns that seem to produce useful results.
This is not a problem in and of itself, but we have to be honest about what we are doing and what the true endgame is.
“Powerful” people are just the top cogs in these machines and replaceable like all other cogs.
One day we will find out no one runs anything and we have slowly and inadvertently ceded total control to The Machine and have been ceding it for a long, long time already.
This world confused me sometimes.