Comment by JumpCrisscross
4 days ago
In theory. It’s strange to argue about hypothetical issues with something currently defending against actual problems. One battle at a time.
4 days ago
In theory. It’s strange to argue about hypothetical issues with something currently defending against actual problems. One battle at a time.
I'd hardly call decentralization a "hypothetical" issue: we've already seen governments are willing to issue gag orders so that we can't even find out what they're doing inside major companies. That's clearly a lot easier to do when there's a single central point of control.
If there's a single central point of control, then that also means an outage takes everything offline, instead of just 1-2 tools. That also makes it a bigger target for attackers.
It doesn't even need to be an attacker - CloudFlare themselves have managed to take down impressive portions of the internet more times than should be accepted just this year.
So do you apply the same logic for measures gov/Apple/etc put out about on-device scanning and e2e messaging stuff? It's always "hypothetical" until it hits the fan.