← Back to context Comment by pmlnr 5 months ago No, the government is always exempt. Citizens shouldn't be allowed e2e, the government, that's ok. 3 comments pmlnr Reply selendym 5 months ago The problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens. pmlnr 5 months ago 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? Kim_Bruning 5 months ago 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.
selendym 5 months ago The problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens. pmlnr 5 months ago 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?
pmlnr 5 months ago 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?
Kim_Bruning 5 months ago 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.
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.