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Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by robertlagrant on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:43AM (#34924402)
I agree, but that still isn't a net loss in privacy. We can still communicate the way we could, except now we also would like an unbreakable way of communicating online.

I understand of course that scale is an issue online, but that doesn't affect the idea that encryption gives us basically unbreakable communication over a distance, and removing it is not eroding our last vestiges of privacy.

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Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by nhchris on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:25AM (#34924762)
It's making privacy more expensive and rare, while making surveillance cheaper and more common. Do we have to wait until it is literally impossible to share a single word in private before we start to worry?
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Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by robertlagrant on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:48AM (#34924989)
> Do we have to wait until it is literally impossible to share a single word in private before we start to worry?

No one is saying anything like that.

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Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by Nextgrid on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:50AM (#34924458)
The fact that most communication has moved online means that there's significantly less physical mail traffic than back in the day, so maybe physical mail is not secure either if total capacity is now below what the government can monitor?
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