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Comment by gardnr

4 months ago

In the Five-eyes jurisdiction, it is legally allowed to use strong end-to-end encryption. Any potential laws that are contrary to that would come up against some serious 4th amendment issues. The idea of cryptography as a munitions was largely set aside in the name of capitalism.

Tor was funded by the U.S. Department of State. Signal and WhatsApp are end to end encrypted.

Sign up for EFF's mailing list and donate money to them. Check out their Secure Messaging Scorecard: https://www.eff.org/pages/secure-messaging-scorecard

We, as a society, are under constant attacks on our ability to maintain our privacy. As we've seen in large political and technological shifts, it only becomes more important to maintain your privacy. Deep fakes used in scamming relatives is one good example.

Please do release your software and ideas that make information more secure.