▲ | Valodim a day ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The difference is the collateral. Are you really going to shut down a country's most popular local email service? Or gmail? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | woodruffw a day ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I think the answer to that is resoundingly yes: the kinds of countries that care about curtailing E2EE messaging are also the ones that institute nationwide internet blackouts. (But also, this isn’t a good argument! Repressive governments love metadata, and email is an amazing source of unbounded metadata even with these kinds of “secure” layers slapped on top. If I was a government looking to snoop on my citizens, I would absolutely push them towards the protocols I can infer the greatest amount of behavior from.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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