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rileymat2 3 hours ago

The fly in the ointment is that they control the software and updates to that closed software so can short circuit that with appropriate pressure.

Terr_ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Throwing this on the "brainstorm if we had an ideal legislative world" pile: Stealing a user's private key should be a felony, even if it hasn't (yet) been abused for anything.

The tricky part is keeping it from being "permitted" by a crappy contract of adhesion. Banning it entirely would make it very difficult to buy/sell backup services...

mrexcess 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That would seem to constitute Honest Services Fraud under federal law, if they promised E2E then sabotaged it intentionally…

rileymat2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not in the case of mandated back doors and warrants.