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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself by monero-xmr on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:20PM (#33630793)
Encrypted messaging also helps terrorists, child sex abusers, arms dealers, and all manner of crime. It would be 100% safer if all messages were funneled through government servers for scanning.

However, as a society a choice we made was to enable individuals to message secretly with each other over encrypted communications, even if there are significant and documented harms to society.

Tornado Cash did not rob from 1 million retail customers, while FTX did. I think your argument is far too simple.

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself by data_maan on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:35PM (#33631024)
> It would be 100% safer if all messages were funneled through government servers for scanning.

Uh... what?!

You do know that if you break encryption for gov't you break it for the bad guys as well?...

You do know that there are all kinds of nations that will throw you in prison if you hold the "wrong" opinions, which those opinions become known when they are funneled through the gov't servers?...

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself by jacoblambda on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:38PM (#33631060)
You might want to re-read that. The comment was comparing privacy preserving transactions against privacy preserving messages to illustrate the point that both are essential technologies for society.
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