Mastodawn

I am growing tired of governments who can't seem to understand how encryption works.

You *cannot* both have secure encryption and encryption with a backdoor (or "lawful" access). It's impossible.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/#magical-backdoor-only-for-the-good-guys-is-a-complete-fantasy

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Encryption Is Not a Crime

Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

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Ian Turton May 28

@Em0nM4stodon didn't we decide this back in the 1990s with the clipper chip?

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Joe Vinegar

@ianturton @Em0nM4stodon this (privacy), like any other human right, is not given (once it is even achieved). Instead, coming from an experience of rights enjoyment makes it *harder* to be conscious of its importance and of the need to actively defend it. Eventually it's easier to have it stolen.