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▲ sscaryterry 3 hours ago

If you are purist and you don't live in the real world with real evils. I don't want pedophiles to have privacy.

▲john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>I don't want pedophiles to have privacy.

that is why police already have access to mechanisms to remove privacy from people suspected of being a pedophile.

▲sscaryterry 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The existing mechanisms are inadequate or not fit for 2026. Hence this discussion.

You are agreeing with me :)

▲john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent [-]

>You are agreeing with me :)

i am absolutely not :)

you want to provide unfettered warrantless access to all of your communications. ive been fighting against that sort of thing for approaching 40 years now.

▲sscaryterry 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> have access to mechanisms to remove privacy from people suspected of being a pedophile

I don't understand that part then. You can't break open E2EE by willing it open.

Right now, if I wanted a new account, I walk into any supermarket, spend a quid, and I've got a burner, with WhatsApp.

▲john_strinlai 2 hours ago | parent [-]

>I don't understand that part then. You can't break open E2EE by willing it open.

the mechanism to remove privacy from suspects is typically called a warrant.

(end-to-end encryption does not matter if you possess one of the ends)

▲BoingBoomTschak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

After Epstein, Hollywood and decades earlier Dutroux, you'd think people like you would have wizened.

For fuck's sake, my country's entire media/intellectual class protected an avowed and even boasting pedophile during his entire life! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Matzneff