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Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by ailideex on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:28PM (#21866465)
I would guess unless someone actually agrees to help the NSA they cannot do much to defeat real E2E encryption schemes used in things like Wire/Telegram/Signal/Matrix/Tox - and with some of them that are open source such schemes to help the NSA will be very difficult. I don't think this quite the same as what UAE allegedly did with ToTok.
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Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by zaphirplane on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @01:54AM (#21870376)
Or a law is passed / directive issued. See the cryptography restriction in the 90s and the recent lotus notes backdoor story here. Even the old stories about the blackberry messaging keys requirements in various countries
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