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Comment by pmlnr

16 days ago

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.