Matthew GreenIt is remarkable to think that only in the past 15-20 years have we moved most of our private communications to digital channels with centralized storage & the processing power to perform bulk scanning. Coincidentally that’s nearly as long as encrypted messaging has been around.
Many folks in law enforcement and politics seem genuinely confused about the popularity of end-to-end encrypted messaging, like we all just decided to become anarchists or something. That’s not at all the dynamic we’re seeing here. The entire basis of our communications infrastructure shifted in a direction that’s inimical to privacy; encryption is the obvious solution.
Max Leibman has moved!@matthew_d_green The confusion may be a lack of understanding of the technological context, but I fear it may also stem from worldview. If there were a safe and accurate way to read minds, I fear a lot of these same folks would be fine with the idea that all it should take to do so is a warrant.
@maxleibman When it comes to scanning, they don’t even want there to be a warrant. These systems don’t require one as long as the scanning is “voluntary” by the tech firms. Of course they also want to make the tech firms do it by default, which makes everything more confusing.