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Re:Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intellig... by gruez on Saturday July 06, 2019 @09:02AM (#20369451)
>that incentivizes the use of end-to-end secure protocols that don't trust routers

That doesn't work for metadata. Also, confidentiality is only one aspect of security. You also want availability, which can't be assured with clever crypto.

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Re:Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intellig... by __sy__ on Saturday July 06, 2019 @02:11PM (#20370964)
this. I wish this comment was at the top of this thread. Saying that end-to-end encryption will somehow fix the Huawei threat is utter nonsense.
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