Comment by Kim_Bruning
15 days ago
For years, law enforcement pushed for encryption backdoors, arguing they were necessary to combat crime and terrorism.
In the US, after Salt Typhoon compromised telecom networks—including court-authorized wiretap systems—the FBI has now (somewhat reluctantly, I think) started advising government officials to use end-to-end encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp to protect themselves. [1]
I think the UK government is running a bit behind wrt Encryption.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5223490/text-messaging-...
No, the government is always exempt. Citizens shouldn't be allowed e2e, the government, that's ok.
The problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens.
I don't want them to be, they make themselves exempt.
It's bad. It's one of the causes that triggered the French Rebellion in 1793: one rule for them, one for us?
They do seem to think that way sometimes, don't they?
But the counter-argument here is: if the civilian E2E apps had also/already been backdoored, they'd be entirely out of options now.