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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/56769139

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[โ€“] technohippie@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What I think is that it won't matter to them because narcos and other predators will just change the methods they use to communicate, and for the rest we will be left with this backdoor that could go wrong in so many ways and the mass of people can't change that easily their methods of communication.

[โ€“] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that is a strategy; to force organised crime onto other networks and off the all too effective public encrypted networks

to make them easier to identify and track