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munksbeer ◴[] No.45213355[source]
What should actually happen is that adversaries of this policy should challenge those backing chat control to a test. Those backing it get to attempt to make it work for a year in a control environment, and if at the end of that year, they still can't read every message that actors within that control environment send to each-other (which they won't), we abandon the whole thing for good.

"Bad guys" will always find a way around any attempt to stop them communicating privately. And the rest of the population will be left with governments spying on all of our interactions. The fact that this is even getting this far is absurd.

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1. Anamon ◴[] No.45247009[source]
Why not? They should then also be forced to red-team the heck out of it. If they claim so confidently that it can be done securely, ask them to prove it and set up a bug bounty program. Then watch them scramble for excuses when the first person releases all recorded messages within an hour of the system going up.