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petesergeant 7 hours ago

> which makes sense considering that it is a government-owned news outlet in a Five Eyes member state

re the mention of FVEY, I strongly suspect it's law enforcement rather than the spooks who have any issue with encryption there. I don't think FVEY SIGINT are having any issue reading the messages they want to read, it's the City of Spokane Police Department, FBI Tampa, and the Manitoba RCMP who are struggling, and would like Apple to give them decryption keys. SIGINT would love you to believe they can't read your messages because of encryption.

lyu07282 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> SIGINT would love you to believe they can't read your messages because of encryption.

I think this line of thinking can lead to a sort of defeatist ignorance. For example, can anyone break the default cipher suite of wireguard or gpg? I really don't think so.

petesergeant 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> can anyone break the default cipher suite

I think one would be very lucky to have an adversary who’s focusing their attacks at the strongest points

lyu07282 2 hours ago | parent [-]

fine just give up then, you already lost? Fuck that, let's not pretend like they are omnipotent all the fucking time.

petesergeant an hour ago | parent [-]

You seem to be passionately arguing against a point of view I haven’t expressed